{"id":1652419,"date":"2022-09-22T05:06:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652419"},"modified":"2022-09-22T05:07:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T09:07:34","slug":"europes-vegetable-farmers-warn-of-shortages-as-energy-crisis-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/europes-vegetable-farmers-warn-of-shortages-as-energy-crisis-bites\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s vegetable farmers warn of shortages as energy crisis bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feuropes-vegetable-farmers-warn-of-shortages-as-energy-crisis-bites%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1652419&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Ardee NAPOLITANO and Sybille de La Hamaide<\/p>\n<p>BOUVINES, France (Reuters) \u2013     Emmanuel Lefebvre produces thousands of tonnes of endives on his farm in northern France annually, but this year he may abandon his crop because of the crippling energy costs required to freeze the harvested bulbs.<\/p>\n<p>Across northern and western Europe, vegetable producers are contemplating halting their activities because of the financial hit from Europe\u2019s energy crisis, further threatening food supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Surging power and gas prices will impact crops grown through the winter in heated greenhouses such as tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, and those which need to be placed in cold storage, such as apples, onions and endives.<\/p>\n<p>Endives are particularly energy hungry. After the bulbs are harvested in the autumn, they are stored in below-freezing temperatures and then later replanted in temperature-controlled containers to allow for year-round production.     <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really wonder if we\u2019ll harvest what is in the fields this winter,\u201d Lefebvre told Reuters at the site where his endives are packaged.<\/p>\n<p>European farmers are warning of shortages. The anticipated hit to production and jump in prices means supermarkets may switch to sourcing more goods from warmer countries such as Morocco, Turkey, Tunisia and Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Surging gas prices are the biggest cost vegetable farmers cultivating inside greenhouses face, farmers said. Meanwhile, two French farmers renewing their electricity contracts for 2023 said they were being quoted prices more than 10 times those of 2021. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the coming weeks I will plan the season but I don\u2019t know what to do,\u201d said Benjamin Simonot-De Vos, who grows cucumbers, tomatoes and strawberries south of Paris. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it stays like this there\u2019s no point starting another year. It\u2019s not sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HEADING SOUTH <\/p>\n<p>Farmers are not just contending with spiralling energy prices. The cost of fertiliser, packaging and transport are all on the rise and jeopardising margins. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe face an overall increased production cost of around 30 percent,\u201d said Johannes Gross, deputy sales manager at the German cooperative Reichenau-Gem\u00fcse whose greenhouses cover some 60 hectares. Energy accounted for anywhere between half and two-thirds of these extra costs, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome colleagues are thinking about leaving their greenhouses empty to keep the costs as low as possible. Nobody knows what will happen next year,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Greenhouse industry group Glastuinbouw Nederland says up to 40% of its 3,000 members are in financial distress.<\/p>\n<p>Even in sun-flushed countries like Spain, fruit and vegetable farmers are grappling with a 25% increase in fertiliser costs.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Ward, chief executive of the British Growers Association, said it was inevitable production of fruit and vegetables would shift to warmer climes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will move production further and further south, down through Spain and into Morocco and bits of Africa,\u201d Ward said. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide and Ardee Napolitano in France, Nigel Hunt in London, Nette Noestlinger in Berlin and Emma Pinedo Gonzalez in Madrid; editing by Richard Lough and Aurora Ellis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/europes-vegetable-farmers-warn\/fear-of-production-halt-sprouts-among-french-farmers-facing-spike\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8L08D-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8L08D-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/europes-vegetable-farmers-warn\/fear-of-production-halt-sprouts-among-french-farmers-facing-spike-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8L09B-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8L09B-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/europes-vegetable-farmers-warn\/fear-of-production-halt-sprouts-among-french-farmers-facing-spike-3\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8L09D-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8L09D-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/europes-vegetable-farmers-warn\/fear-of-production-halt-sprouts-among-french-farmers-facing-spike-4\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8L09H-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8L09H-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/europes-vegetable-farmers-warn\/fear-of-production-halt-sprouts-among-french-farmers-facing-spike-5\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8L09G-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8L09G-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ardee NAPOLITANO and Sybille de La Hamaide BOUVINES, France (Reuters) \u2013 Emmanuel Lefebvre produces thousands of tonnes of endives on his farm in northern France annually, but this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}