date:Feb 09, 2022
r small sizes of navel, but only 30 per cent of the harvest can be considered small. This leaves 70 per cent of the production of the farm to be larger sized, and as stated there has simply been no demand for these sizes, Tharwat explains. For the Baladi variety, the demand was slow compared to the previous season. Some markets still have oranges from the South African season stored in their cold store.
Overall, the issues have caused a major reduction of export volumes for the Egyptian oranges