Spanish apricot season is almost over

The apricot season is coming to an early end in Spain this year. "The season is almost over," says Fabián Nicolás of Albice Fruits, a producer in the northern Spanish province of Huesca. "Yesterday we organized a final round of harvesting for the last of our varieties, Farlís. Other years we picked apricots until the end of August, but with this year's weather we started earlier and therefore finished earlier." "Although there is very little fruit left in the orchards, the demand is still very good, so we are closing the season with correct prices." But, Fabián notes, this hasn't been the case all season. "First of all, there was a shortage of hands. We had a hard time harvesting all the fruit on time, especially because we had to start over a week earlier due to the heat. Varieties that are normally picked at the beginning of June were already harvested on May 20-22 And so in the first part of the season, from May 25-26 to June 15, there was an oversupply that resulted in falling ...