- Excellent debut for Italian apples both on the domestic and foreign markets. According to the latest Assomela data not yet definitive reported in the Trends report by Ismea, production will amount to approximately 2 million tons, of which approximately 1.8 million will be destined for the fresh market, down 5% on last year.
The quality is good even if with calibers below 2020, due to the low temperatures. The shortage of summer fruit has positively affected the market right from the first negotiations, which, by favoring the exhaustion of the residual stocks of the previous campaign, made it possible to place the new product at price levels similar to or higher than the initial ones. of the previous year.
According to Ismea-Nielsen data, apple purchases between October 2020 and September 2021 fell by 9% in quantity and 6% in value thanks to the increase in average price lists. Above all, the strong reduction in sales recorded between March and May 2021 compared to the same period of 2020, when the first lockdown had caused a boom in purchases in the domestic channel, was weighing. S.
On the foreign front, Ismea reports that apples are the fruit and vegetable product that boasts the best balance of the Italian trade balance.
In the last campaign, from August 2020 to July 2021, the balance touched 900 million euros thanks to exports of around 1 million tons.
In the period August 2020 - July 2021 the exported quantity marked + 14% on an annual basis for an increase in receipts of 19%;
at the same time, imports halved in terms of quantity and the related expenditure decreased by 20%.
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