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Shoppers in the United Kingdom (U.K.) are to hunt around to find supplies of fruit and vegetables. Britain's major supermarkets are produce like cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes amid shortages from suppliers. The big chains have various reasons for the shortfall in supply that has shelves bare in green-grocery aisles. Britain's biggest supermarket chain, Tesco, has purchases of certain vegetables to three per customer. Tesco its shortages to adverse weather overseas. In particular, it a drought in Morocco had to poor yields. Tesco customers it was day and night to "get things back to normal".

Other factors are being for the rationing. Britain's farmers' union said higher energy costs it was no longer financially viable for many growers to . It also said a tomato disease has out a lot of crops across northern Europe. Industry analyst James Walton said Brexit has a part in distribution problems. He said: "The EU for much of the UK's import volume. If there are shortfalls in production in the EU, then it makes sense for EU producers to their local demand first. This less available for export to the U.K." Many shoppers are perplexed at photos on social media of supermarket shelves across Europe, and in war- Ukraine, laden with fresh produce.