I love your images my friend! I have a raspberry plant in container and the more it gets older the more it bears more berries. I make blueberry cupcakes, super delish recipe I got from a muffin book..thanks for sharing! Steem on!
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Thank you @mers i wish i had my own plants i love all my berries but they can be so expensive to buy.
The same here in Spain... if one would think, Spain is the biggest producer of veggies and fruits that supplies most of Europe, In their own land , the avocados are so expensive even if it came form here.... or the mangoes, etc. The berries are the same because all are grown in tents in Almeria about 200 kms from my place. The problem is the middlemen are getting all of these from the poor farmers at a cheap price per kilo...I know it, I used to have an avocado farm here with 300 trees... the prices are so cheap per kilo , then when the middlemen handle them it will cost 1 Euro per piece... a kilo would be around 1 Euro from the farmers and the kilo has around 6 pcs.
I understand exactly where your coming from my dad had farms and like you say it's always the middleman that takes advantage of the situation...lol..never fair 😡
Indeed and also you can´t trust any of those agents that pick the fruits and delivers them to the cooperative without you on their side. We´ve been cheated before and the last avocado harvest had 3 tons and because we didn´t accompany the agent, the cooperative ysaid almost 1/3 of the harvest had been either small or damaged... The amount cheated from us is around 2K Euros... From that time on, we never trusted anyone anymore and we sold the farm.... that was it! The one who bought our property from Wales did not maintain the farm, all 300 trees dried and died off and the farm looked so ugly...
That is so terrible it happens to many farmers around the world it is so unthoughtful of them , they only think of there own pockets. Well i hope you are into better things now.