Brazil: Orange harvest 2022/23 in the citrus belt of SP and MG is reestimated at 314.11 million boxes

Reestimate points out that production remains within expectations This Monday (12), Fundecitrus releases the second re-estimate of the 2022/23 orange harvest in the citrus belt of São Paulo and Triângulo/Southwest Mineiro, the main orange producing region in the world, which should be 314.11 million boxes of 40.8 kg. This figure shows that the harvest is within expectations compared to the estimate published in September this year, with only an increase of 20,000 boxes, which corresponds to 0.01%. As this growth is not very expressive, the crop failure presented in the previous re-estimate is maintained, of 0.9% in relation to the initial expectation, due to the volume of rainfall below the historical average. According to the coordinator of the Crop Estimate Survey (PES) at Fundecitrus, Vinícius Trombin, this small change was influenced by the variation in weather conditions. “The volume of rainfall is lower and its occurrence was in more isolated spots, becoming uneven even ...