The stone fruit appears already with less kilos and a fall of European competition

Less than a week ago, those responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) met with those of the main producer organizations to take stock of the situation in the sweet fruit sector after the 2020 season and to see the prospects for this year . The MAP started in its analysis of a 2020 campaign shorter than that of previous years (1.68 million tons in total of apricot, peach, nectarine, plum and cherry), below the 1.96 million of 2019, the 1.88 million in 2018 or 2.24 million in 2017, the latter year that the sector wants to forget because of the low prices it received. In 2020, Aragon was the first producing region (442,596 tonnes), followed by Murcia (383,294 t), Catalonia (364,877 t), Extremadura (207,334 t), Andalusia (100,055 t), Valencian Community (64,243 t), Castilla-La Mancha (57,405 t) and the rest of the autonomous communities, which in total totaled 61,507 tons. If the 2020 campaign was characterized by "a significant reduction in the cultivated ...