Nectarines

During the 2023 crop forecast webinar, Eric Hostalnou explained that the sector is “facing an unprecedented situation this year.” The current weather conditions, the drought in Spain and France as well as the recent floods in northern Italy, make it very difficult to estimate the losses that
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Afrucat, the business association for Catalan fruit, presented the first nectarine and peach estimate of the 2023 season in a press conference at the beginning of calendar week 21 together with DACC, Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda of the Catalan regional government.
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As a result of the inclement weather (lack or excess of rainfall, unseasonal heat and cold, etc.), harvest forecasts are becoming a production potential, as the representatives of the different countries that have presented their stone fruit figures for this year have remarked.
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The cherry campaign, which got off to a difficult start in Italy due to heavy rainfall, is now at an end, while that of hawthorns and strawberries in the central and southern regions of Italy is coming to an end. There is less availability of aubergines and peppers due to the bad weather. Delayed the
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Afrucat, the business association for Catalan fruit, presented the first nectarine and peach estimate of the 2023 season in a press conference at the beginning of calendar week 21 together with DACC, Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda of the Catalan regional government.
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Afrucat has held a press conference in a nectarine plantation in Castellserà that clearly shows the effects of the closure of the Urgell Canal. The trees are getting rid of their dehydrated fruits and there is a widespread lack of leafiness. read more

Afrucat, the Catalan Fruit Business Association, held a press conference today at a nectarine plantation in Castellserà that clearly shows evidence of the closure of the Urgell Canal with dehydrated fruit, which is being expelled from the tree, and a
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The season of peaches and nectarines from the Mediterranean region is starting. Low rainfall and high temperatures are affecting production and calibre sizes in the Spanish growing regions. Consequently, the promotional season with the stone fruit starts in the German
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Catalonia continues to be severely affected by drought. One of the consequences of the water shortage was the closure at the end of April of the Urgell Canal (Lleida), which only supplies water for the population and emergency irrigation for fruit trees. A cultivated area is affected
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The wave of bad weather conditions and slows down production, affecting price changes. Courgette prices are rising sharply; peaches and nectarines are falling, while demand for them is struggling, as is the case for melons, with prices falling. The campaign for
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Until now, there was a big absentee in ready-to-eat fruit salads: the banana. The handling of the fruit, which tends to blacken quickly, has always seemed too complicated for fourth-range companies. read more

Exotics are benefiting from the current delays in most summer fruit. "The large Spanish peach and nectarine volumes are still some way off, and strawberries also remain quite pricey. Demand for passion fruit, for example, is, thus, much better than previous years," begins Ive Lambert of Starfruit. read more

The stone fruit harvest has started slowly in Extremadura with the first apricots and with very limited volumes. Soon the first nectarines, peaches and extra early flat peaches will also arrive. read more

For a long time, stone fruits such as apricots, nectarines and peaches were regarded as imported goods par excellence. But after the first, successful cultivation trials in southern Germany, the tropical fruits are now also growing and thriving in Lower Saxony. "We will harvest our first
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Summer can come - and this year it brings juicy news: "We believe in Ondine because the quality of our flat nectarines and peaches is simply so high," emphasised Matteo Mazzoni of the Italian company of the same name when at last week's Macfrut the
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The Spanish stone fruit season is starting in Extremadura, where Frutas Biomova has just begun harvesting its biodynamic fruit. "We are going to have good production volumes of all fruits, except for the first nectarines that are harvested in May," says Jesús Moreno, of the Valdelacalzada-based
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The Emilia-Romagna peach-growing industry has a new opportunity to relaunch itself and it is called Ondine. The international club project for flat white-fleshed peaches and nectarines (which in Italy involves 4 top partners: Agrintesa-Alegra, Greenyard, Mazzoni and Naturitalia), from this year finally
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"This year there were no significant failures regarding stone fruit, so we expect a relatively normal harvest. It is also a good year for the peels, as the fruits tend to be smaller. More rain is needed for the fruits to grow larger," the Llombart company informs us. "We have started the season
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Cooperatives producing stone fruit, mainly peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, flat peaches and cherries, have launched this Wednesday, 3 May, the campaign 'Buenas Hasta el Hueso' (Good to the Stone), with the aim of promoting their consumption and spreading the word about their benefits as a source of
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The Spanish peach and nectarine campaign has begun. Increasing quantities of Sicilian melons. Italian production of green beans is struggling to take off.Slowdown in demand for strawberries, but the trend is higher than last year.Price increases continue for
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