Stone fruit production in Spain aims to increase by 50%

Cooperativas Agro-alimentarias de España participated yesterday in the Peach, Nectarine and Apricot Contact Group of the Mixed Committee of Spain, France, Italy and Portugal and the Europech Forum within the framework of the MEDFEL fair, the two European events in which the representatives of the main producing countries of the EU (Italy, France, Greece, Spain) analyze and share the European stone fruit harvest forecast for more than 30 years. The participants coincided in pointing out the difficulties in preparing a harvest forecast, given the weather conditions that the main producing regions are going through. The figures reflect the state of development of the plantations in mid-May, before the aforementioned extreme conditions of lack and excess of rain, respectively. In Spain, the stone fruit harvest will depend directly on water availability in the coming weeks and throughout the summer, especially in the Ebro Valley, in a context of severe drought, after a very dry winter ...