{"id":324732,"date":"2025-08-07T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/324732\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:38:11","slug":"eu-apple-production-remains-low-at-10-46mn-tonnes-7-5-per-cent-below-three-year-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/324732\/","title":{"rendered":"EU apple production remains low at 10.46mn tonnes, 7.5 per cent below three-year average"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Italy, France and other western European countries expect above-average harvests, production in Poland and south-eastern Europe continues to suffer from spring frost damage<\/p>\n

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Apple production in the European Union is expected to remain relatively low at 10.46mn tonnes, according to new forecast data revealed by the World Apple & Pear Association.<\/p>\n

And of serious concern to the entire industry will be the suggestion that demand remains relatively unchanged as consumer demand for other products such as avocados and mangoes continues to rise.<\/p>\n

Speaking at Prognosfruit in Angers, France, where the forecast was announced, Ursula\u00a0Schockenmoehle of market analyst\u00a0AMI said there was\u00a0\u201clow enthusiasm\u201d for apples among young people.<\/p>\n

Volume share for apples in Germany, she explained, was only 11 per cent among young, single consumers and couples without children. Avocados, by contrast, now attract a 22 per cent volume share for that cohort.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a shift among young couples, especially in the German market, away from products like apples towards superfoods like avocados,\u201d she observed. \u201cAnd of course, many of these people will go on to have children.\u201d<\/p>\n

The headline forecast figure represents a very slight decrease on last year\u2019s forecast 10.47mn tonnes, although Eurostat data indicate the eventual production for 2024\/25 was a little higher.<\/p>\n

And it means EU apple output remains just over 7.5 per cent down on the three-year average \u2013 and a long way below 2018\u2019s harvest of more than 13mn tonnes.<\/p>\n

While production will be higher than the historical averages in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands \u2013 and also set to recover in Austria, Belgium, and Germany \u2013 it will be lower than average in in Poland, Turkey, Hungary, Greece and other parts of south-east Europe, where spring frosts are understood to have affected some orchards.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s so-called backyard crop \u2013 a major influence on the country\u2019s market demand \u2013 is predicted to \u201cquite high\u201d at about 450,000 tonnes, according to AMI.<\/p>\n

Contrasting figures<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new forecast includes a 3.46 per cent year-on-year decline in Italy\u2019s apple volume to 2.25mn tonnes, and a 3.45 per cent annual increase in Poland\u2019s output to 3.3mn tonnes.<\/p>\n

However, the longer-term trend for those two countries, by far the largest apple producers in the EU, reflects their contrasting fortunes. Measured against the three-year average, Italy\u2019s crop is set to be 1.93 per cent bigger, and Poland\u2019s 15.1 per cent smaller.<\/p>\n

Other notable forecasts include France with 1.48mn tonnes (+3.6 per cent year on year), Germany with 1mn tonnes (+14.7 per cent), Spain with 501,000 tonnes (-8.3 per cent), Romania with 442,000 tonnes (-10 per cent), and Portugal with 303,000 tonnes (-3.3 per cent).<\/p>\n

The forecast data was published by WAPA at Prognosfruit, the annual apple and pear business convention, which this year meets for its 50th edition in Angers, France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Italy, France and other western European countries expect above-average harvests, production in Poland and south-eastern Europe continues…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699],"class_list":{"0":"post-324732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114986582580708525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}