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"CAN (NS): Low blueberry prices "unsustainable"

Low prices are affecting the berry growers of Nova Scotia. Farmers are claiming the prices are currently unsustainable and that many farms may go out of business if nothing changes. Their only hope, they say, is a beneficial tariff elimination in the Canada-EU trade agreement. They hope that this will be a boost for the berry industry, which is in desperate need of one.

“Most growers have been receiving 30 cents per pound at the processing plants and that’s sharply lower than what we received last year; 50 cents per pound,” Peter Rideout, executive director of the Wild Blueberry Producers Association of Nova Scotia, said Tuesday.

“These low prices are not sustainable,” he said. “The situation is now serious. There’s a serious drop in revenues for producers.”

“Any developing we were doing as an association, that’s going to have to stop,” said van Dyk. “We just don’t have the cash to do that.” he added.

source: thechronicleherald.ca