Association again adjusts lemon export figures downwards

Although the lemon season is drawing to a close, and some areas have finished packing, feedback from the remaining harvesting areas has necessitated a further downward adjustment of the overall export estimate, the Lemon Focus Group of industry organisation the Citrus Growers' Association of Southern Africa (CGA) says. The overall lemon export estimate follows a pattern that has become clear as the citrus season progressed, namely that owing to drier weather causing fruit sizes to be somewhat smaller, good local juicing prices and recent severe weather events, fewer 15 kg cartons of citrus will be exported than expected.