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Crisis of tomato in Israel
Israel
Thursday 18 November 2010
FJ
Imports are planned to try to consolidate prices of tomatoes.
In October, price of tomatoes had risen to 23 shekels a kilo (4.5 € ), then fell to 4 shekels, he just start rising to 9.5 shekels.
The origin of this inflation is the drought that has been fatal to many agricultural products, particularly tomato.
The Israeli Minister of Agriculture, Shalom Simhom, plans to import tomatoes from abroad to bring down prices.
The duty of an ordinary shekel (0.2 €) on each kilos of tomatoes imported could be removed to encourage importers to source tomatoes on foreign markets.
And to avoid another crisis for tomato, "the minister wants to take preventive measures to increase the quota of water for the tomato culture.
Source: Israel Valley
