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Mediterranean citruses : 2014-15 harvest forecasts

Published on 30/11/2014 - Published by IMBERT Eric
FruiTrop n°227 , Page From 20 to 31
Price : EUR 30,00

Big production figures, but no record

The Mediterranean will undoubtedly remain the world’s number two citrus production area in 2014-15. The harvest, set to register a small cyclical fall, should be slightly in excess of 23 million tonnes, of which just over 20.6 million tonnes from the CLAM countries*. A figure well below the more than 30 million tonnes produced in China, where the growth dynamic nonetheless seems to be withering because of the increasingly significant effects of greening. The USDA has also announced for the first time in years a fall in cultivation surface areas in 2013-14, the consequence of eradication measures taken in major production provinces such as Jiangxi and Guangdong. On the other hand, the gap is tending to widen with Brazil and the United States, which follow in the ranking but are seeing their production stagnate, or even clearly shrink under the impact – once again – of greening, more than ever the nemesis of world citrus growing.