This year's lemon harvest will exceed last year's values. However, according to All Lemon, the organization that grants the quality seals for export, the production is still far from being a normal production. "The plants haven't re-accommodated themselves biologically speaking. The effect of the heavy frost of 2013 and the drought in spring 2013 and summer 2014 resulted in a decline of more than 60% in production over the normal production values," said the company.
In addition to the decrease in the local production of lemon, the organization said, "the plants have a great productive disorder that will affect the 2015 campaign." The president of All Lemon, Romain Corneille, said it was too early to define the productive variables for 2015. However, he stressed, "apart from this complex physiological situation, the lemon audited by All Lemon is facing challenges due to the global financial situation in Europe and in Russia, as the Euro weakens and the Russian ruble devalues."
Source: La Gaceta