Morocco restores tomato exports in 2024

Published 2024년 5월 23일

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Morocco has recovered from a significant drop in greenhouse tomato exports in the previous year, setting a record with 266 thousand tons exported in the first three months of 2024, a 10% increase from the same period in 2023. Despite challenges like drought, heatwaves, and the ToBRFV virus, the country's exporters are on track to end the 2023/24 season on a high note. The majority of these exports, over 50%, were sent to the EU, with France being the largest recipient, followed by the UK, the Netherlands, and Spain. However, increased duties on imports from Morocco by Mauritania led to a decrease in its share of supplies in the first quarter of 2024.

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Morocco has restored exports of greenhouse tomatoes this year after numerous problems in the fall of the previous year, EastFruit reports. Moreover, in January-March 2024, the volume of exports of Moroccan products again set a record. Thus, in the first three months of this year, 266 thousand tons of greenhouse tomatoes were exported from the country, which is 10% more than in the same period in 2023, and 9% higher than the average of the previous five years. Thus, Moroccan exporters have every chance to finish the 2023/24 export season with dignity, although it began with rather negative events. Thus, many farmers reported significant damage from the drought and summer heat of 2024, and in the Souss-Massa region (one of the most important production areas) a new temperature record of +50.4℃ was set in mid-August. The increased incidence of the ToBRFV virus spreading in local greenhouses and the associated crop losses did not add to optimism. As a result, Moroccan tomato exports ...

Source: Eastfruit