New Zealand: Fresh Deciduous Fruit Semi-annual
A biennial bearing “off” year in MY2013 is likely to have reduced production of apples to 480,500 metric tons. However, better than normal export pack-outs have reduced the impact of this off- year on the apple export tonnage, which is now expected to be 301,000 metric tons. This won’t match MY2012’s stellar performance of 322,000 metric tons of apples exported from production of 531,000 metric tons. But grower profitability is expected to remain firmly positive in MY2013 for the second year running.
