Argentina’s estimated lemon output for the marketing year 2020-21 has been increased 12% by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service, but exports have been revised lower.
The USDA revised its estimate for Agentina’s fresh lemon production to 1.15 million metric tons, up 12% from prior estimates, as summer rains offset some drought impacts.
However, the country’s marketing year 2020-21 lemon exports are forecast at 180,000 metric tons, down 10,000 metrc tons from the previous estimate as a result of larger fruit supply in the Northern Hemisphere, strong competition from South Africa, and uncertainty about stringent EU sanitary measures restricting imports of fruit, according to the report.
