A surprising move: not many expected what happened in France

Published 2024년 12월 7일

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Agreste's final forecast for the 2023 French apple crop has been revised upwards to 1.703 million tons, marking a 7% increase from the previous forecast and a 16% increase from the 5-year average. This is largely due to full harvests in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and smaller increases in other regions like Occitanie and Limousin, despite challenges such as early fruit drop and frost damage. However, heavy rains in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes province and persistent rains in the Centre-Val de Loire region have slowed down the harvest and reduced the expected production in these areas.

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Agreste's November, i.e. this year's, final forecast revised the crop prospects estimated in the previous forecast upwards to a large extent, so instead of the French apple crop of 1.56 million tons (-2%) predicted earlier, it estimates 1.703 million tons, which is 7 percent higher than the previous year. 2023 volume, and by 16 percent the 5-year average of the period between 2019-2023. The amendment was necessary because in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, after last year's bad harvest, there will be a full harvest this year, reports Fruitveb. From the 9.3 thousand hectare production area of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) region, a harvest of 320 thousand tons was estimated in August, which would have meant a 7 percent increase in volume after the particularly weak yields in 2023. Agreste has now corrected this to 403,000 tons in its November forecast. This year's mild summer and abundant rainfall resulted in a particularly good harvest, and the fruit size was larger ...

Source: Agronaplo