More peach and nectarine production, consumption, and import in the EU

The Report of the European Commission on the Perspectives of the agricultural markets corresponding to the summer of 2022 in which the general situation in different sectors is exposed, states that this campaign, in peach and nectarine, there will be greater production and consumption, 3% more respectively compared to 2021 and in extra-community trade: more imports and the same export. In the Agricultural Market Outlook Report for the summer of 2022, analyzed by FEPEX, the Commission collects estimates similar to those that have already been made public since the campaign began, in the sense that European production grows as a whole, due to rising data from France, Italy and Greece, but with a sharp decline from Spain due to bad weather. Specifically, the EC estimates that the total production of peaches and nectarines in the EU in 2022 will increase by 3% to 3.4 million tonnes, although this is 9% below the five-year average. Positive production expectations in Italy, France and ...