date:May 14, 2020
The strawberry sector is suffering the impact of the coronavirus. Since consumers currently prefer fruit with a longer shelf life, strawberries are ignored. In Spain, this has resulted in the supply being higher than the demand, while growers in California are working carefully to avoid an overproduction. In France, however, the situation is the complete opposite. The government's call to buy local produce and the refusal to import Spanish strawberries has allowed the demand to become greater th