WAPA - Apple stocks, June 2021

2021-07-01 12:01

WAPA estimates that apple stocks as of 1.06.2021 in the EU countries surveyed amounted to 788,143 tonnes (excluding Portugal). Recall that stocks on 1.05.2021 were estimated at 1,313,305 tonnes. This means that in May last year, apple stocks were down by 525,162 tonnes, or 40.0 per cent. In April 2021, the relative decrease in the amount of stored apples was 31.7 percent.

Recall also that apple stocks as of 1.06.2020 were 657,000 tonnes in the compiled countries. This means that year-on-year stocks are 131,143 tonnes or 20.0 per cent higher. In March this indicator was +16,7 per cent.

As the chart above shows, Italy had the highest stocks of apples over the period. Poland was in second place and these two countries were clearly ahead of the others. France, in third place, had stocks almost three times lower than Poland.

As far as Poland is concerned, WAPA estimates apple stocks on 1.6.2021 at 237,000 tonnes. A month earlier, as at 1.05.2021, it was 398,000 tonnes. It follows that the "run-off" of apples from Polish warehouses in May 2021 amounted to 161,000 tonnes, or 40.5% of the 1.05 stock. Italy "sold out" in May of 171,000 tonnes of apples and France 71,000 tonnes).

Let's add that a year ago Poland's apple stocks as at 1.06.2020 were only 58,000 tonnes, so now they are as much as 179,000 tonnes or 209 per cent higher year-on-year. In April this indicator was +144 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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