Spain: The 55% increase in costs slows down profitability in the first section of the Alicante lemon campaign

The 55% increase in costs has slowed profitability in the first section of the lemon campaign in Alicante, since although the prices at origin have improved compared to the two previous years, the producers expected a greater increase, given the decrease of national and provincial production (-20% in Alicante) and the sharp drop in one of our main competitors, Turkey. Likewise, Asaja-Alicante highlights a notable drop in lemon exports to Germany (-19%), our main customer, as a consequence of the severe consumer crisis that the German country is going through due to inflation. After two years in which the star crop in the province of Alicante could hardly cover production costs and resulted in negative balances for producers, Asaja-Alicante hoped that Alicante lemon farmers would have been able to take a breather this campaign in a context of lower generalized production throughout the Mediterranean arc, which in the province has been around -20% (33 million kilos less), together ...