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For marketing year (MY) 2021/22, Post revises its estimates for fresh lemon production to 1.90 million metric tons (MMT), up by 15 percent, due to favorable weather conditions. Fresh orange production is projected to increase to 920,000 metric tons (MT), and fresh tangerine production is expected to increase to 400,000 MT.

The prevailing extraordinary factors make it difficult to estimate exports for the rest of the year and the coming year. Other factors have been added to the recurrent volatility of the international dairy market.

For Marketing Year (MY) 2021/22, Post forecasts that fresh deciduous fruit production is estimated to decrease by 7 percent, due to unexpected frost that affected the crops at beginning of October 2021. Some producers had active frost defenses in place and were less affected, while others experienced serious crop losses.

Argentina continues to be the third largest producer of biotech crops, producing 14 percent of the world´s total biotech crops.

For CY 2017, production of all three types of citrus fruit is forecast to decrease below normal levels due to unfavorable weather conditions in the main citrus growing regions of Argentina.

Beginning in mid-November weather conditions improved in growing regions for soybeans and sunflower seed affected by previous heavy rains, allowing producers to reactivate their planting intentions.

There continues to be significant discussion over the short-term effects of the government’s decision to delay the reduction of soybean export taxes and the introduction of a five percent export...