Italian apples are recovering, but the countryside is difficult

Published 2022년 11월 23일

Tridge summary

The 2022-23 commercial campaign for Italian apples is facing challenges such as increased production costs, small fruit size and unsatisfactory coloring, logistics issues due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and a weak euro against the US dollar. Despite these challenges, apple consumption in Italy is showing stability with an increase in retail purchases of packaged apples and organic apples. The quality of European apples is concerning with a higher percentage of medium-small sized fruit and unsatisfactory coloring. In Italy, the apple harvest is expected to increase by 1.3% from 2021, with a positive trade balance. However, the future of Italian apple exports to non-European countries is uncertain due to global economic and logistical issues.

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Original content

The 2022-23 commercial campaign for Italian apples promises to be anything but simple. This is stated by the Ismea November 2022 focus, which raises the price increases as the first critical issue. Proven producers and other critical issues “The fruit growers – reads the report – have had to deal with the increase in costs, often in the triple digits, of many of the means they use for cultivation, such as fertilizers, diesel and electricity. And it is precisely the increase in the price of energy products that puts a strain on the economic sustainability of the activities of the POs and other companies that preserve, condition and package fruit". The second disturbing element is logistics, and more generally trade between Italy and non-EU countries due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Furthermore, it is necessary to deal with the weakness of the euro against the US dollar: if on the one hand it makes exports of European products more competitive, on the other it continues to ...

Source: Myfruit