South African lemons head to markets outside Europe

The South African citrus season is barely a month underway, and the country’s lemon exporters are clearly favouring Middle Eastern, Russian and Asian markets for their early shipments.

The first South African Citrus Growers’ Association (CGA) export forecast points to a total lemon volume of 37.3m (15kg) cartons.

If this is realised, it would be an increase of 2.6m

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