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Veiling Hoogstraten sells more than 20 million kg of strawberries.
Belgium
Sunday 04 November 2007
Veiling Hoogstraten ends the current year with a new record: no fewer than 20,000,000 kg of strawberries were auctioned by the clock.
A few words of explanation about that enormous quantity:
Veiling Hoogstraten can supply every Belgian with 2kg of strawberries each year
20 mill. kg = 5 mill. crates = 40 mill. punnets = 41.666 pallets
If you put all the strawberries that went through Veiling Hoogstraten in 2006 end to end, they would stretch around the world!
If you put all the crates of strawberries side by side on football pitches, you would need 150 pitches to do it!
These 20 million kg strawberries are grown on 847 hectares (= 8,470,000 m²)
The city of Antwerp could be filled 4 times over with strawberries supplied through Veiling Hoogstraten in 2006.
Strawberry growing in the Northern Kempen has undergone a real metamorphosis in the last 20 years: there has been a switch from occasional cultivation and growing for industry to professional, all-year round growing for the fresh market. Together with the expansion of the glasshouses crops of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, Veiling Hoogstraten ended the current financial year with produce sales of 109 million € or 6% more than in 2005. Strawberries account for 51 million € or 47.5% of total sales.
The supplies of strawberries through Veiling Hoogstraten has now reached a level that clearly makes it a player on the European stage. There are very few sales organisations that have this kind of sales volume of strawberries.
A few words of explanation about that enormous quantity:
Veiling Hoogstraten can supply every Belgian with 2kg of strawberries each year
20 mill. kg = 5 mill. crates = 40 mill. punnets = 41.666 pallets
If you put all the strawberries that went through Veiling Hoogstraten in 2006 end to end, they would stretch around the world!
If you put all the crates of strawberries side by side on football pitches, you would need 150 pitches to do it!
These 20 million kg strawberries are grown on 847 hectares (= 8,470,000 m²)
The city of Antwerp could be filled 4 times over with strawberries supplied through Veiling Hoogstraten in 2006.
Strawberry growing in the Northern Kempen has undergone a real metamorphosis in the last 20 years: there has been a switch from occasional cultivation and growing for industry to professional, all-year round growing for the fresh market. Together with the expansion of the glasshouses crops of tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, Veiling Hoogstraten ended the current financial year with produce sales of 109 million € or 6% more than in 2005. Strawberries account for 51 million € or 47.5% of total sales.
The supplies of strawberries through Veiling Hoogstraten has now reached a level that clearly makes it a player on the European stage. There are very few sales organisations that have this kind of sales volume of strawberries.
