Spain: MARM's estimate on the agricultural campaign
Some noteworthy points regarding fruits and vegetables:
- Production estimations for early potato and mid-station potato register increases of 6.4% and 0.1%, respectively.
- For tomato of 1-I/31-V harvest, the production estimate points to a drop of 4.8%, and the first estimation for 1-X/31-XII tomato cultivated area pointed towards stability (-0.2%).
- In cultivated area, the estimation for onion registers a drop of 10.7% that, separated by varieties, shows a drop of 4.6% for babosa, -16% for grain and medium grain onion and a 13.7% increase for other onions. In production, the estimate points to a drop of 31.9% in onion babosa, and a 23.3% drop for grain and medium grain.
- Regarding other vegetables, the production estimations register increases, for artichoke (+12.2%), watermelon (+9.9%), green beans (+7.9%), broccoli (+0.8%) and cauliflower (+0.5%); decreases are registered for lettuce (-2.7%), spinach (-4.1%) and asparagus (-17,4%), regarding the previous campaign.
- Production estimations for fruit point to a rise in peach (+25,4%), almond (+6.9%) and banana (+5.1%), while there's a drop for pear (-12.5%), apple (-5.4%), peach (-5.3%), cherry (-4.1%) and plum (-2.4%), regarding the previous campaign.
- Production predictions for mandarine in the 2011/2012 campaign, ascend to 2.11 million tons. For grapefruit there's a slight rise in production (+0.2%), while for sweet orange and lemon estimations point to drops of 10.1% and 0.4%, respectively.
Source: agrodigital