Spain: Lemon capacity could fall by 21%

Published 2024년 9월 6일

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The Spanish lemon harvest for the 2024/2025 season is expected to see a 21% decrease from the previous year's record-breaking production, with an estimated total of 1,260,000 tonnes, as per AILIMPO's forecast. The decrease is expected across both Fino and Verna varieties, with an 18% drop for Fino and a 31% decrease for Verna. The AILIMPO Board has emphasized the importance of stability, avoiding speculation, and ensuring profitability for all stakeholders in the lemon industry. They have also underscored the need for good plant health management and pest control, highlighting these factors as crucial for the production season.

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AILIMPO's lemon harvest estimate for the upcoming 2024/2025 campaign predicts a production in Spain of 1,260,000 tonnes, which represents a 21% decrease compared to the production balance in the 2023/2024 campaign (which had the largest lemon harvest recorded to date), which closes with a final production of 1,595,181 tonnes, according to the provisional balance that accounts for exported, processed, and domestically marketed fruit, weight losses, and unharvested fruit. By variety, the forecast is a drop of 18% for Fino and 31% for Verna. The AILIMPO Board of Directors, with representatives from ASAJA, COAG, UPA, Cooperatives, Exporters and Industries, has validated the harvest capacity and has outlined the strategic lines of this new lemon campaign, which are based on stability, prudence, the elimination of speculation, profitability for all links in the chain and compliance with contracts. AILIMPO also highlights the enormous ...

Source: Agrodigital