Peaches and apricots: expected decline for 2018 production

 

 

AGRESTE, according to its newsletter 'Conjonctures' announces that according to estimates as of May 1, 2018, the production of peaches would decline by 10%, compared to that of 2017, being 9% below the five-year average. Although a delay in vegetation (10-15 days) is noted in several areas, the provisional estimate of peach and nectarine production is 200 000 tonnes. That is a volume 10% lower than last year and 9% below the 2013-2017 average.

 

 

 

For apricot production, according to estimates made by the same date of May 1, 2018, the volume for the 2018 crop year would reach 136,800 tonnes. That's a 14% decline in production compared to the 2017 harvest and 8% below the 2013-2017 average. Frost and bad weather have strongly affected the flowering of early varieties and the beginning of the marketing year is expected to be in deficit.