Apricots
Severe frost damaged apricot orchards in Hungary
2023-05-03 00:00
At the beginning of April, frosts of between minus 3 and minus 8°C were recorded in Hungarian apricot orchards. There were also reports of cold temperatures during the relatively early flowering period, which started in early to mid-March. But it was the damage caused by the transported
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The apricot campaign is starting
2023-05-03 00:00
The apricot campaign at Lozupone Import-Export will start in mid-May. The company, which specializes in the cultivation of table grapes in Puglia, introduced the crop a few years ago. There are multiple varieties available, both early and late.
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Photo report medFEL 2023
2023-05-02 00:00
The 2023 edition of medFEL is officially over! This year, the fruit and vegetable sector met on April 26th and 27th at the exhibition center of Perpignan.
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Stone fruit season looking uncertain
2023-05-02 00:00
"Although the 2023 summer fruit season has not started yet, things are already looking uncertain. The main reasons are the weather and the drought, which have already caused a 20% drop in production for apricots," explains Maurizio Fiorenza, director of OP Eco Farm.
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"We hear that Hungary and also Austria are experiencing frost damage to apricots and plums"
2023-05-02 00:00
Like pretty much the entire fruit and vegetable sector, the Balkan countries were also affected by the negative impact of the war, Anneliese Vollweiler, Managing Director of Anevo Trading GmbH, tells us.
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Apricot production drops by a quarter in Italy
2023-05-02 00:00
Apricot production is declining across Europe according to data presented by Europêcha Perpignan, France, as part of the new edition of Medfel. According to estimates for Italy by Cso Italy, which participated in the fair, the reduction this year will be 26% compared to 2022.
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After the apricots, it is now time for the melon harvest predictions. Like every year, the Interprofessional Melon Association presented the 2023 plantation predictions for Charentais melons at medFEL for Morocco, Spain and France.
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Europe’s apricot sector remains short of full potential
2023-04-28 11:00
Apricot production in Europe will be shorter this year, according to a new forecast issued during Europêch, an annual industry meeting that took place at trade event Medfel in Perpignan, France.
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European apricot forecast: 7% drop in production by 2022
2023-04-28 00:00
The production forecasts for apricots - Europêch 2023 - were presented in Perpignan as part of Medfel. As every year, Cso Italy participated by providing estimates for Italy;
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Spanish apricots bounce back
2023-04-27 10:00
Spanish apricot production is set to broadly recover from last season’s devastating frosts. According to the latest forecasts from fruit association Afrucat, presented at Medfel this week, volumes are expected to be 52 per cent higher than last season.
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The European apricot production is recovering
2023-04-27 00:00
The traditional medFEL crop predictions were revealed this morning. 2021 was a catastrophic year for the European apricots due to the frost that affected all production basins and caused significant losses. In 2022, the frost episodes were particularly severe in Spain, the most affected
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'Apricots: too many goods and not yet ready'
2023-04-27 00:00
While Italian apricots have already made their debut on the boot markets (click here to read more), the results are not always as expected. We talked about this with Dennis Boarin of the Sover Frutta company, which operates a stand at Veronamercato.
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Large attendance for the first morning of medFEL
2023-04-27 00:00
The 2023 edition of medFEL opened its doors at the exhibition center of Perpignan on Wednesday, April 26th. The attendance was good on the first morning for the opening of the event. For two days, professionals of the fruit and vegetable sector will have the opportunity to meet and attend some
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The Spanish apricot harvest is up 52%.
2023-04-27 00:00
Europe has experienced some frosts in Greece and northern Italy and has been affected by the lack of cold hours during the winter, which has caused an overall decrease of 7% in the apricot crop forecast compared to last season, with some 500,000 tonnes.
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medFEL: Planting forecasts for Charentais melons
2023-04-27 00:00
On the occasion of the medFEL in Perpignan in the south of France, in addition to the harvest forecast for apricots, the current developments of the acreage for Charentais melons in Morocco, Spain and France were published. This continues to go downwards, at least in Spain: the areas
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For more than ten years, the southern French fair has been an important date in the calendars of national and international industry experts. Not least, certainly, because in addition to the good opportunity for networking with local players, the preliminary estimate of the apricot harvest
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Plum production in la Costera and Vall d'Albaida plummets
2023-04-25 00:00
The harvest of the earliest summer fruit varieties in the districts of la Costera and Vall d'Albaida is about to start and producers have confirmed that the plum has, once again, experienced a bad setting that will lead to a 70% decrease in its harvest, according to the first estimates.
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Exports of new crop apricots from the southern regions of Uzbekistan have started (photo)
2023-04-22 00:00
In March, EastFruit reported on the formation of green apricot fruits in the orchards of the southernmost administrative-territorial unit of Uzbekistan – in the Termez district of the Surkhandarya region. About a month later, exports of apricots of the new crop from this region started.
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Stone fruit production, Spain expects a slight upturn
2023-04-21 00:00
The first Spanish stone fruits have already arrived in Italian markets: in the last few days we have found peaches (click here to read more) at very high prices;
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Fresh apricots of a new crop became available in supermarkets in the capital of Uzbekistan at the beginning of the second decade of April and have fallen in price by more than 3 times over this time, EastFruit experts report.
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