Israel will export some 7,000,000 cases of citrus fruit this season and will net about $30,000,000 from the sales of this fruit, it was stated here today by Itzhak Rokach and I. Chourin, directors of the Citrus Marketing Board.
These figures compare with the $17,000,000 to $18,000,000 netted from last season’s crop. In view of Israel’s excellent crop, the country can increase its exports by 33 percent over 1953 and double its 1952 total. Due to a shortage of oranges in Europe, resulting from the destruction of the major share of the Spanish crop by cold weather, the price of Israeli citrus fruit is higher than last year. Some 21 countries are buying Israeli fruit, it was stated.
The citrus marketing officials expressed the hope that some 400,000 cases of the 650,000 cases ordered by the Soviet Union could be delivered before the season ended. It was pointed out that because of the undue severity of the weather in the Odessa area, which spoiled the fruit before it could be unloaded, shipments to the USSR were suspended for a month. They also revealed that there are good prospects for signing agreements for fruit sales to Rumania and Hungary.
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