The high demand for food service canned mandarins this year expects the Spanish canned mandarin production to fall short at 20,000 tons. A lot of Spanish canners are complaining about the weak production of canned mandarin, asserting that there are enough fruit produced and to be packed. With this kind of situation, they are cannot do anything but to push up prices of Spanish canned mandarins.
However, the Spanish canners must not pursue with their plan to push up prices of Spanish canned mandarins since growers of Spanish mandarins have improved supply for the raw fruit to be canned. Spanish mandarin is a little citrus tree with the same fruit as the usual oranges. Commonly, this fruit is eaten plain or served in fruit salads. It is canned alone that will then be incorporated with other fruits to make fruit salad.
Spanish mandarin produced this season is a fruit softer and smaller than usual because of the pre-season weather conditions. With these smaller fruits, this only means fewer broken segments. There are rumors from Murcia that Spanish mandarin canners are not anymore interested in trading broken segments but since the season progresses, this rumor may alter. Despite of the competition in China, prices of Spanish canned mandarins held stable, agra-net.net said. UK traders are supplying some Chinese canned mandarins but with restricted experience of factory controls, therefore buyers still stick with Spain.
Latest attempts of Israel to push up prices of Spanish canned mandarins have proved unsuccessful. Thereby, it seems that the prices of Spanish canned mandarins will stay the same like last year. However, the shortage of juice this time can be a chance for Turkey and Israel to push through with their price hike. Canners need to double the segments of juice in standard cans of mandarin compared to syrup, according to thefreelibrary.com.
