One of the main topics discussed in recent days is the high price that consumers pay for lemon and given this there are proposals that are being evaluated by the Government among them is to import a greater quantity of this citrus fruit, however, for the regional market coordinator of La Libertad, Fernando Reyes, these measures are not helping much and that the situation has worsened compared to the pandemic.
It is that before the pandemic A wholesale bag of this product cost S/200, in the middle of the pandemic it cost S/300 and currently in the wholesale market its price is S/500 per bag. Reyes is trying to test a response to this increase.
“As a result of the last El Niño phenomenon In 2017, many crops were spoiled, so the agricultural field has been reduced and the population has increased and this has generated a shortage of food products and we have reached this situation where we see that high sums are paid for lemons due to lack of this product,” indicated the representative of the merchants.
“There is a variety of Tahitian lemon but it is not enough for the demand, the proposal made by the state, the consumer’s change in their food taste is not possible to achieve from one day to the next, it is part of our culture food. What has the State done to change this. There is a crisis and the Government is not analyzing this whole problem well,” she added.
He also indicated that the markets have to support all that emotional load that the consumers. “They blame us for the rise in prices and we forget that merchants are part of the entire chain.”
Source: Larepublica
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