Consumers must expect to find more and more "crooked" fruit and vegetables in the supermarket. Climate change is changing the food market. "The rising temperatures and weather developments caused by climate change and global warming are a relevant stress factor for agriculture," Klaus Rauhaus, Managing Director of the Genossenschaft der Öko-Bauern, explains in an interview with kreiszeitung.de. "We have to say goodbye to the familiar appearance of fruit and vegetables. Sunken cabbages, small carrots or not-so-green broccoli will be on the shelves more and more often in the long term," says the agricultural engineer.
"Nature cannot be controlled, and the well-grown cucumber and the flawless apple will be less the rule in future," he says. Weather events such as an increasing number of days with heavy rainfall - including throughout Lower Saxony - will make it increasingly difficult for farmers to harvest "perfect" fruit and vegetables. Rauhaus predicts that consumers will also have to adjust to rising food prices if they want to continue buying only "pretty" vegetables.
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