“Among the biggest traitors in history, one might mention the weather,” a quote by the America writer Ilka Chase, sums up fairly well the feeling generated by the 2016-17 winter citruses season. True, production proved to be above average in all the major Mediterranean exporter countries, contrasting with the lean harvest in 2015-16, the consequence of a lethal spring heatwave. Yet the biblical rains which battered the West Mediterranean during winter 2016-17, combined with very mild temperatures, caused major appearance problems and drastically cut exportable volumes. The Spanish giant was particularly hard hit, and in its production heartland: more than 460 mm poured down on the Valencia region from November to January, i.e. more than four times the normal rainfall.
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