Record price of tomatoes, costs 350 lek per kg/ Farmers: We are ashamed, but costs have increased

Albanians are consuming very few tomatoes this season, and this time not because of the pesticide load or the quality, but it is the price that is keeping this product off the table. 1 kg of tomatoes from farmers is being sold for 250 lek/kg, but if this tomato comes to Tirana, its journey will cost the consumer 100 lek/kg.

"I'm selling 1 kg of tomatoes for 250 lekë and I'm ashamed, because it's a very expensive price, but we have a lot of costs and we are in extreme conditions as farmers,"  said farmer Qerim Elezi.

The yield in the Qerim Elezit greenhouse has been halved this year, and extreme changes in climate conditions are to blame.

"With the 2 acres of land I have with this type of tomato, I should have gotten at least 200 quintals, while now I don't know if I'll be able to get it with 50 quintals, so I'm 150 quintals short. Climate change, the lack of sun in November led the plant to rot and it doesn't set the grain,"  said farmer Qerim Elezi.

According to the farmer from the village of Hardhi i Belshit, there are several reasons why the value of tomatoes exceeded these figures, the first is climate change and the second is the November floods in the villages of Berat and Dimal, such as Samatica and Drenovica, which are otherwise known as the greenhouse area; in this first agricultural season they will not produce because their plants rotted from the water.

This situation causes a shortage of tomato products in the market, but the effect does not end here because we must prepare to set the table with imported tomatoes and vegetables that do not even have the taste and aroma of our production./ TopChannel

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