Adverse weather conditions affected peach production in Portugal

According to the Monthly Bulletin of Agriculture and Fisheries of the National Statistics Institute (INE) of September, the atypical climatic conditions registered in the present campaign affected the productivity of the peach orchards, with more intensity in the interior of the Center, where the last hail fall May day left many fruits marked on the epidermis and pulp, unable to be marketed for fresh consumption. It should be noted that the fruits harvested until the first week of July, after the separation of those that had conditions for fresh marketing, had to be destroyed, since it was only from that date that the manufacturing industry began to receive raw material ...