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Sicilian blood orange crop down 40%

Due to the poor weather conditions that we have faced in Sicily, the final estimate for the 2015 Blood Orange crop, initially forecast to be 30% lower than 2014, is actually much lower at below 40% of the size of the 2014 crop.

In the Blood Orange growing area (i.e. Catania and Siracusa) in February it rained on 22 days out of 28 and on 13 days out of 31 in March.

This caused an enormous early drop of fruit and, as a result, during second half of April harvesting of Blood Oranges had finished, i.e. one month earlier than normal.

All processors have suffered considerably as a result of such unforeseen circumstances also because, due to the fact that Blood Oranges grow ONLY in particular areas in Sicily, they could not source fruit for processing from other areas of Sicily or from Calabria.