WAPA has already estimated the apple harvest in EU for 2022

Published Aug 4, 2022

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The 2022 Prognosfruit congress in Belgrade has seen the World Association of Apple and Pear Producers (WAPA) predict a 1% increase in European apple production for the 2022/23 season, reaching 12,168,000 tonnes. Poland is expected to see a 5% rise in its apple production, achieving nearly 4.5 million tons. However, WAPA anticipates a decrease in production in several European countries like Belgium, Croatia, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Lithuania, and Hungary. This forecast makes the expected harvest the third largest in the past 16 years, following the 2018 and 2015 harvests.

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The Prognosfruit 2022 congress is currently taking place in Belgrade. After a two-year break, we managed to organize the event on-site. How does WAPA forecast the harvest of apples and pears in the 2022/23 season? The World Association of Apple and Pear Producers estimates that this year's apple production in Europe will be symbolically 1% higher than that of the 2021/22 season. It will amount to 12,168,000 tonnes. Of course, we are most interested in the forecasts for domestic apple production. WAPA reports that this will amount to almost 4.5 million tons in Poland (exactly 4,495,000 tons). Thus, it will be 5% and 195,000 tonnes higher than last year's. At the same time, the WAPA forecast is as much as 300,000 tons higher than the GUS forecast from the end of July, which amounted to 4.2 million tons. A decline in production is forecasted in Belgium, Croatia, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Lithuania and Hungary. ...

Source: Sad24