Global Coalition of Fresh Produce

2024 Survey into production/shipping costs and selling prices

The Global Coalition of Fresh Produce brings together fresh produce associations from around the world, based on their joint vision to create resilient global value chains for fruits and vegetables that bring a myriad of economic, environmental, and societal benefits. The Coalition’s mission is to voice solutions to address disruptions in global supply chains for fresh produce, including – but not limited to – rising costs, and share and promote best practices.

In 2023, as producers and traders the world over were facing unprecedented cost hikes, the Coalition conducted a survey into the impact of these hikes on our industry. The results of this survey are available on our website at https://producecoalition.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Producer-Costs-and-Prices-Report.pdf.

Now, we are repeating our global survey to understand how the situation has evolved over the past year. The new data will support the development of global and national perspectives on the evolving impacts of production and trading costs in the following regions: Canada, the USA, Europe, Africa, New Zealand, Australia and South America.

Please take a moment to complete this short survey to support our efforts to frame and understand the challenges our sector is experiencing today.

Question Title

* 1. What is the type of your business?

Fruit producer

Vegetable producer

Packer

Shipper

Wholesaler

Other (please specify):

Question Title

* 2. What country or countries you produce/grow/pack in?

Question Title

* 3. Which country or countries do you sell in?

Question Title

* 4. Have you seen price changes in these areas? Please estimate the percentage change over the past year.

Fertilizer

Seeds

Crop protection products

Plant material

Water

Fuel/gas

Electricity

Cardboard boxes

Palettes

Labour costs

Construction costs (e.g. greenhouses)

Machinery and equipment

Storage

Shipping

Audits/accounting/business management

Land/building rents

Utilities (e.g. telephone, internet)

Other (please specify):

Question Title

* 5. Has your average selling price gone up or down? Please estimate the percentage change over the past year.

Up by (percentage):

Down by (percentage):

Question Title

* 6. Overall, have you been able to adjust your selling price in line with changes in operating or production costs?

Yes

Please elaborate:

Question Title

* 7. In most cases, are you:

Making a profit

Selling at a loss

Breaking even

Question Title

* 8. Please compare your current sales margin to that of one year ago (in percentage change).

Question Title

* 9. Over the course of the past year, have changes in the costs of materials, labour or other inputs impacted your investments in any of the following:

No impact on investments

Operations (capital investment)

Equipment

Innovation

Expansion

If yes to any of the above, or you have other areas of impact, please elaborate:

Question Title

* 10. Have changes in production/shipping costs affected your strategic/operational choices over the past year?

Yes

Please elaborate:

Question Title

* 11. Have you received any financial support from your government to compensate changing costs of production/shipping over the past year?

Yes

Please elaborate:

Question Title

* 12. Do you see the impacts of the change in production/shipping costs decreasing before the end of 2024?

Yes

Please elaborate:

Question Title

* 13. Is the medium-term (two to three years) economic sustainability of your operations endangered? If so, please identify the main factors behind this situation in the next question.

Yes