The Algarve is running out of oranges
The Algarve is responsible for 90% of Portugal’s orange production; orange trees need a lot of water (much more than avocados, for example) and with the drought, this has almost been impossible. Whatever trees have produced this year is generally smaller, less in number – and certainly nothing like as juicy.
Producers have said they ‘have never seen anything like it’: a
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