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| 10 jul 2015 |
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European Vegetable Crops affected by weather conditions
European vegetable canners and freezers in major producing countries are concerned over this year’s spring crops.
After a cold spring, the countries in the central production area of Europe had an exceptionally low rainfall in May and June. While differences are noted between the North and South of Europe, certain regions had 40 to 50% less precipitation than normal.
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In addition, the first week of July has been tropically warm and dry with high winds, which intensified the dry-out effect. A heat weave was officially declared with record-high temperatures up to over 35°C.
These meteorological conditions have affected major vegetable crops and shortages will occur for a number of vegetables:
• Peas: the crop will be reduced by the dry and hot weather. It will be a very short season because of the late start and the early stop.
• Spring spinach: after the cold spring the season has been moved up in time and not all the planned hectares could be sown and processed. The extreme drought and heath on top have affected the crop.
• Cauliflower: a reduced production is resulting from heat and drought.
• Beans: because of the drought the sowing of beans became extremely difficult to nearly impossible.
• Rootcrops (carrots): the spring crop is late and lost its potential. Consequently concerns arise over the production of canned mixes of peas and carrots.
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