Spain: The orange harvest begins in Andalusia with a drop in production and only 0.24 and 0.28 €/Kg for the first quality
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Spain
Published Nov 15, 2022
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The agricultural organization Asaja Córdoba has reported the start of the activity of the citrus market after the start of the harvest in a campaign with special concern due to the sharp drop in production, the lack of calibres, the continuous increase in production costs and the cuts in risks last summer, which causes the sector to face the start of the campaign with a lot of uncertainty.
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The prices are somewhat higher than last year, with 0.24 and 0.28 €/Kg for the first quality. Taking advantage of this first meeting, an assessment of the prospects for the campaign was also made, in which a production much lower than the previous one is expected with a shortage of high calibres as a consequence of the weather conditions, as the Junta de Andalucía already announced in September, estimating 32% less in its capacity, a percentage that surely has increased due to the lack of rain in the last two months. The citrus market price monitoring table has started quoting the Navelina orange between 0.24 and 0.28 €/Kg for the first quality, prices based on operations carried out in recent weeks, and which are slightly higher than the last year at the beginning of the market's activity in a campaign that had the lowest prices in recent years. The upper part of the ranges corresponds to high calibres, which are very scarce in the field this year due to the weather conditions ...
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