The ongoing 2021/22 crop for EU27 has been estimated at 11,777 tons [Jan ‘22 update]. This is 6,7% higher than the preceding 5 year average and 11 % above the 'small' crop of the past marketing year (data from WAPA for 20 MSs, from Eurostat for the remaining 7 MSs).
After two years of below average crop volumes and relatively high prices, the ongoing marketing year is registering prices coming to normal levels; in the case of Poland, the embargo of Belarus has implied higher stocks than expected; recent prices for Poland, however, show a recovery.
Export logistics is being a huge challenge in many parts of the world but the EU is relatively less affected by that situation.
The sector currently faces temporarily several challenges:
- Rising input costs (especially energy, transportation fees and other farm inputs);
- Bottlenecks and high costs on road a vessel transport (high maritime freight rates);
- Labor shortage (especially for harvesting and lorry drivers)
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Source: ec.europa.eu