date:Jun 12, 2019
Summer is the time when red fruits appear in the fields. Precious and expensive, these fragile little fruits are subject to recurring thefts. Producers are overwhelmed.
When the strawberry harvests are open to the public, many eat a strawberry out of two, therefore paying only for a fraction of their consumption. This creates a rather significant shortfall for the farmers.
But it gets worse; there is an increased number of organized thefts of several hundred kilos of strawberries. In Germany,