Fruits in British market in mid-November 2008

Orange: All southern hemisphere oranges (mostly South African) will see the market tighten this month as nearly all imports are already in this country to beat the duty increases on 2nd week in November.

 

Currently medium are freely available with small and large both experiencing some shortages. No surplus is available on juicing oranges.

 

Prices are fairly stable, availability is not good and will remain like this through November.

 

Lemon: Southern hemisphere lemon is all but over with early Turkish arrivals now being seen with Spanish commencing towards the back end of November.

 

Stone Fruit: European stone fruit is more or less over, peach and nectarine are coming through very large and the quality is being looked at daily and we believe this only has a week or so left until we withdraw it.

 

Early southern hemisphere peach & nectarine is usually woody and tasteless and we normally take a break for around 4 weeks, plum will may move out of Italy into Israel before moving south over the coming month.