Quiet market for Spanish lemons due to lack of good sizes, good demand for grapefruit

The Spanish lemon season got off to a start this year more than two weeks earlier. The grapefruits were also on the market about fourteen days earlier. The lemon market is currently calm, while grapefruit sales are proceeding briskly due to the currently scarce supply. "We have been working on the Primofiori lemon for three weeks now," says María Dolores Pelegrín, of Apemar's sales department from Murcia. “Our season has started earlier with the suspension of Argentinian lemon exports to the EU this summer due to pest interceptions. Three weeks ago there were only lemons from South Africa on the market, as well as a few consignments from Chile and Uruguay. But the limited supply was no longer of such good quality, which meant that we switched to Spanish products more quickly. Other Spanish exporters started even earlier than us ”. According to the exporter, the lack of good dimensions is playing tricks on sales this year. “Nobody wants calibers 5 or even 4. Demand is very ...