Table grapes in Italy: Export volumes dropped due to bad weather

Published 2024년 11월 20일

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The 2024 table grape market in Italy is experiencing significant challenges, marked by low production and high prices, continuing a trend from the previous year. The marketing campaign saw initial high prices for early grapes, which adjusted as the season progressed, but a severe rainfall in September significantly increased prices, with white Italia grapes reaching up to 6 €/kg and seedless varieties even higher. The small grape quantities and early end of the campaign indicate a year of reduced production, with prices driving up. Table grape cultivation in Italy is predominantly in Puglia and Sicily, and adverse weather conditions have impacted production, affecting both domestic and international supply. Despite the challenges, the quality and value of the limited production have led to a 12.8% increase in economic value in 2023, despite a 13.6% drop in export volumes.

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2024 confirms itself as another difficult year for table grapes: after a 2021 and 2022 with a normal trend in terms of quantity and prices, 2023 was followed by a year characterized by low production and high prices. This year, the marketing campaign began with high prices for early grapes, such as the white Vittoria, and the values dropped as usual as the production season began to heat up with the increase in production. Then in September the scene changed radically following the intense and prolonged rainfall that hit the production area of Southern Italy (and the entire peninsula). Prices, consequently, never dropped below 2 euros per kilo in 2024 (except in an initial phase for the Red Globe variety), quickly began to rise towards 4 €/kg for the white Italia grapes and 5 - 6 €/kg for the various seedless grapes. Red Globe is also reaching considerable prices that are close to €3/kg. The quantities present are very small and the 2024 campaign is approaching a particularly ...

Source: Fresh Point Magazine