Spain: Andalucia citrus campaign 23/24 report weeks 49 and 50, the price of lemon continues to drop

Farmers' concern about the economic margins of the Andalusian lemon. The markets stock up in the days before the Christmas holidays. Situation in the fieldThe low prices of lemon in the field and their negative slope, together with the increase in production costs, put professionals in the sector on alert who are even considering not harvesting the fruit. Remember that the quotes presented in the following report correspond to top quality fruit. On the contrary, the average price of oranges and mandarins continues to be high and demand is fluid. The general decrease in Spanish orange production, together with the decrease in the juice orange harvest in Florida and Brazil, the main suppliers - as a consequence, among others, of the HLB disease or citrus greening - causes the price to increase. of the industrial orange. Specifically, and according to data from the Citrus Market 50 of 2023, it was 0.325 euros/kg, compared to the 0.19 euros/kg registered in the same week of the last ...