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Asian Citrus - 42% growth in winter orange crop

April 2010

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  • Epic Code:
  • ACHL
  • Price:
  • 55p
Asian Citrus has traditionally been a seasonal business, with the first half stronger than the second because of the higher selling price that summer oranges command. However, all this gets turned on its head with the latest H1 to 31 December showing that the winter orange crop has grown by 42% to 114,530 tonnes. Assuming that H2 now produces the similar output of 71,000 tonnes of oranges as last year and commands the usual 40% premium in price to winter oranges, the first half becomes the more prominent half. The rise in the winter crop comes on the back of increased maturity of the trees at Hepu, the original producing plantation (volumes up 2.6% to 53,142 tonnes) and also a greater number of trees coming onstream at Xinfeng (up ...

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