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Vegetable industry predicts massive shortages
Australia
Saturday 29 September 2007
The vegetable industry's peak body says consumers will face massive shortages and soaring prices for leafy vegetables, if it does not rain or growers do not get more access to water.
Ausveg says growers have to find an ongoing income while they are not producing or they will no longer be viable.
Chairman Michael Badcock says it is getting to the state where growers in some areas will not risk putting in any crops because there's no water.
"What we'll find, we'll have fluctuating prices at times, when products get very scarce and those times the prices will go quite high, probably three to four fold over what we normally pay," he said.
"We've seen quite serious shortages in the leafy vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflowers, lettuces and things along those lines, but we're finding there's quite a world shortage of food at the moment, probably as serious as it's been since World War II."
Ausveg says growers have to find an ongoing income while they are not producing or they will no longer be viable.
Chairman Michael Badcock says it is getting to the state where growers in some areas will not risk putting in any crops because there's no water.
"What we'll find, we'll have fluctuating prices at times, when products get very scarce and those times the prices will go quite high, probably three to four fold over what we normally pay," he said.
"We've seen quite serious shortages in the leafy vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflowers, lettuces and things along those lines, but we're finding there's quite a world shortage of food at the moment, probably as serious as it's been since World War II."
