15 percent drop in Costa Rica’s 2023/24 orange crop expected
Experts predict a 15 percent decline in Costa Rica’s marketing year 2023/24 orange crop, driving production down to 250,000 metric tons on suboptimal precipitation – associated with an El Niño weather system – during the critical fruit development period in 2023. Higher international orange juice prices in 2023 bolstered growers’ efforts to manage the effects of citrus greening in

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