Slight increase forecast for global tomato processing volume

According to the latest WPTC (World Processing Tomato Council) estimates, the global tomato processing volume should register an increase of + 0.8% compared to 2020.

 

WPTC (World Processing Tomato Council) in its recent forecast for the global tomato processing volume 2021 estimates that this volume could reach 38.92 million tonnes. That is a slight increase of + 0.8% compared to the final result for 2020 (38.6 million tonnes).

 

 

Showing a slight increase over the 2020 volume, this recent estimate differs by -0.5% from the previous estimate and -2% from the initial estimate. By country :

Italy: 5.4 million tonnes,

Spain: 3.1 million tonnes,

.Portugal: 1.4 million tonnes,

. France: 180,000 tonnes,

.Greece: 460,000 tonnes,

Hungary: 100,000 tonnes,

.Russia: 550,000 tonnes,

Ukraine: 850,000 tonnes.

 

 

.China: 4.8 million tonnes,

.Japan: 32,000 tonnes,

.USA, excluding California: 453,000 tonnes,

Argentina: 595,000 tonnes,

.Australia: 230,000 tonnes,

.Chile: 1.1 million tonnes,

Peru: 120,000 tonnes,

South Africa: 149,000 tonnes.

 

 

WPTC (World Processing Tomato Council) is an international non-profit organization representing the tomato processing industry. Currently, its members represent more than 95% of the volume of processed tomatoes in the world.