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Processed tomato area registers significant increase
Agricultural forecasts
Processed tomato area registers significant increase - May 2014
20 June 2014

Summary

Early estimates on May 31 point to an increase in the areas of processed tomato (+20%) and irrigated potato (+5%) and decreases on maize, rice and sunflower. Regarding winter cereals campaign, estimates point out to an overall increase in yields (+10% on durum wheat, 25% on common wheat and 35% on triticale, barley and oats). Concerning orchards, a decrease in the yield of cherry is expected (-10%), crop that was once again greatly affected by the adverse weather conditions that occurred during flowering/pollination and, subsequently, throughout the harvest. In contrast, peach yield should increase by 25%.


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