Spanish Citrus Harvest Expected to Decrease 15.6% YoY to Under 6MMT

The 2022/23 Spanish citrus harvest is forecast at around 6MMT, which will be 1.1MMT less compared to last season and 878,000 less than the five year average. Oranges are set to experience the greatest drop from 3,7MMT last season to 3MMT this season, which marks a 20% decline. Similarly but to a lesser extent volumes of small citrus will be down by 9.8%, lemons down by 12.4% and grapefruit down by 13.7%. The main reason for the low production volume is excessive rains during flowering and fruit setting, and extremely high temperatures and restrictions on irrigation in the later stages of fruit development.