This summer’s Spanish plum deal was marred by poor weather early in the campaign, which caused a delay of approximately two weeks for the arrival of fruit from the country’s main production region, Extremadura.

The fruit subsequently clashed with product from other European sources on the market during July, which led to lower volumes than usual of Spanish product being sold, according to Miguel ángel Gomez, head of the plum committee for trade association Afruex.

“Lower volumes were sold on the UK market in particular,” he told freshinfo.

Afruex’s revised crop forecasts for the 2007 Extremaduran season now stand at 46,000 tonnes of peaches, 60,800t of nectarines, 8,600t of doughnut peaches, 96,179t of plums and 21,504t of cherries.

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