Fruit prices rising this summer – Le Figaro

The average price of fruits increased by 4% this summer compared to a year ago, due to soaring prices on some summer fruits, while the number of vegetables fell 2%, study says Rural Families .

“After 2014 years marked by a decline in prices of fruits, 2015 experiencing an increase in their prices, although it remains below the level of 2013 prices,” record year due to a awful weather, says the association in its annual survey released Wednesday by the newspaper La Croix.

The average price for a kilo of fruit and reached 3.48 euros, against 3.34 in 2014 and 3 78 in 2013. With the exception of strawberry (-11.02%), which reached its lowest price level since 2011, and pear (-3.86%), all eight fruits studied by the association saw increases, especially important for outdoor summer fruits such as cherries (+ 19.15%) to 6.16 euros per kilo, or apricots (+ 12.07%), 3 62 euros per kilo.

The vegetables whose prices had already decreased by 3% in 2014, continuing their tariff decline this year. The average price of a kilo of vegetables this summer reached 2.1 euros, against 2.15 last year and 2.21 two years ago.

The carrot still experiencing a significant increase of + 21.97%, to 1.61 euro per kilo. However, potatoes fell sharply (-19.75% to 1.3 euros per kilo), along with green beans (-8.02%) or eggplant (-7.82%).

If one focuses solely on the summer 2015, the association noted that prices fell sharply in July compared to June, to 7.61% for fruit and 16.1 % for vegetables, in connection with changes in production peaks.

For distribution channels, it is not surprising that buying fruit and vegetables in the markets always more expensive than large distribution. Thus for a basket containing one kilogram of each of the 8 fruit and vegetables 8 of the study, the bill amounts to 51.84 euros in a market, against 46.1 euro in hypermarkets and supermarkets and 44.6 euros in hard- discount.

Since 2007, and across all purchase channels, the average fruit prices rose by 10% (or 0.31 euro per kilo), while those of vegetables increased by 5% ( or 0.1 euro per kilo).

This study is based on price surveys in 69 consumers in 37 departments during the weeks of June 8 to 14 and 6 to 12 July.