Fepex data shows export growth for most of the country’s stonefruit categories through the January-July period
Spain’s stonefruit exports for the January-July period reached 557,371 tonnes, at a value of €974m euros.
That was according to data from the country’s Customs and Excise Department, processed by Fepex, which also suggested those numbers would ”increase sharply” given August and September are strong months for fruit exports.
Stonefruit exports had grown across all categories through the seven months in question, Fepex confirmed, except for plums.
Nectarine exports totalled 194,253 tonnes, growth of 17 per cent year-on-year, at a value of €305.5mn, up 9 per cent.
Paraguayo (flat peach) exports amounted to 124,680 tonnes (up 21 per cent) and €200mn (up 21 per cent), while peach exports came in at 82,478 tonnes (up 5 per cent) and €127.5mn (up 5 per cent).
Fepex said that apricot exports stood at 83,593 tonnes (up 30 per cent) at a value of €153mn (up 22 per cent), and cherry exports totalled 37,311 tonnes (up 18 per cent) and €132mn euros (up 1 per cent).
Plums was the only category enduring a fall in exports, down 8 per cent in volume and 3 per cent in value when compared with the same period of 2023, to 33,066 tonnes and €57mn respectively.
Overall stonefruit production for the year had reached 1.8m tonnes, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food’s summer fruit sector report released on 24 September, with 30 per cent of Spain’s volumes exported.
