This year just as much stone fruit as in 2019 in Spanish Aragon
Spain
Published Jun 6, 2023
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The stone fruit season in Aragon will only start in a few days. In the meantime, some thinning is being done here and there and the harvest of the first cherries is already underway, although with slightly less volumes this year. "The warm days in full bloom caused some problems in the fruit set of the early varieties, so we had to adjust the forecasts a bit downwards," says Agustín Sánchez, general secretary of the Fruit Federation of Aragon.
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The stone fruit season in Aragon will only start in a few days. In the meantime, some thinning is being done here and there and the harvest of the first cherries is already underway, although with slightly less volumes this year. "The hot days in full bloom caused some problems in the fruit set of the early varieties, so we had to adjust the forecasts downwards," says Agustín Sánchez, general secretary of the Fruit Federation of Aragon. "Still, we will achieve figures of an average year, slightly above 32,000 tons." This recovery of the volumes does not only apply to cherry. "Finally we have nice quantities again. For stone fruit we will be around the level of 2019. In 2020 and 2021 we had some frost problems and in 2022 it was even a disaster with the freezing temperatures in the spring." This year it is another climatic factor that causes uncertainty: the drought. "Especially in the region around Caspe and Fraga, the situation is critical, because the level of the water basins ...
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