WAPA - apple stocks, July 2021

2021-08-02 10:26

According to WAPA estimates, apple stocks as of 1.07.2021 in the EU countries surveyed were 456,201 tonnes. Recall that stocks on 1.06.2021 were estimated at 788,143 tonnes. This means that in June last year, the stock of apple decreased by 331,942 tonnes, or 40.0 percent. In May 2021, the decrease in stored apples was 525,162 tonnes, or 40.0 per cent, compared to April.

Recall also that apple stocks as of 1 July 2020 were 339,801 tonnes in the compiled countries. This means that year-on-year stocks are 116,400 tonnes or 34.3 per cent higher. In May this indicator was +20,0 per cent.

As the chart above shows, Italy had the highest stocks of apples during the period in question. Poland was in second place and these two countries clearly outstripped the others in terms of apples in storage. France, in third place, had stocks more than double those of Poland.

As for Poland, WAPA estimates apple stocks on 1.07.2021 at 133,000 tonnes. A month earlier, as at 1.06.2021, it was 237,000 tonnes. It follows that the "run-off" of apples from Polish warehouses in June 2021 amounted to 104,000 tonnes, or 43.9% of the stock on 1 June (Italy "sold out" in June of 101,000 tonnes of apples and France 36,000 tonnes).

Let's add that a year earlier Poland's apple stocks as at 1.07.2020 were only 11,000 tonnes, so now they are up by 122,000 tonnes, more than ten times year-on-year. In June this figure was +209 per cent.

Finally, a chart comparing (in thousands of tonnes) the "exit of apples from Polish warehouses in the current and last season. As can be seen in 2021, in each successive month, more apples left domestic warehouses than in the previous year. Nevertheless, this was not enough to offset the much higher stock levels at the start of the current season.

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