—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 4, 1975
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Canada’s Crops Recover
Canadian apple and pear
crops this year have
recouped from the reduced
outturns of 1973, although not
enough to reach levels at
tained at the first of this
decade.
Despite the improvement,
trade in apples continues to
follow the pattern of last
year, with imports up and
exports down Pear trade, on
the other nand, is seen
returning to more normal
levels following last season’s
export plunge and import
jump.
Current estimates place
Canada’s 1974 apple crop up
some 6.2 percent from the
small 1973 outturn to 890.4
million pounds. The gain
comes despite a 21 percent
declines to 251.9 million
pounds in British Columbia -
normally the major
producing Province but this
year surpassed by both
Ontario and Quebec. Crops
in each gained by more than
30 percent.
Despite the production
gain, apple exports in the
1974-75 crop year (July-
June) are seen inching up
only slightly from the low
level of 1973-74. Current
projections indicate ship
ments of 100 million pounds
of fresh apples, fractionally
above the 99.4 million of last
season and far short of the
119 million achieved in 1972-
73.
Moreover, exports through
November 8 of the current
crop year were down 43
percent from those of a year
earlier. This sharp declines
reflects a generally late 1974
harvest, plus economic
difficulties in the United
Kingdom - major European
outlet. Sales there also have
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been slowed by higher prices
resulting from increased
freight charges for Canadian
fruit.
Canada lost its traditional
trade preference in the
United Kingdom when the
British Joined the European
Community (EC), but
through 1973-74 this had not
adversely affected takings of
Canadian apples, which
totaled 14.8 million pounds in
calendar 1973.
Nova Scotia processors -
especially dependent on the
United Kingdom and other
European markets • have
been concerned over what
will happen at the end of the
5-year phase-in of a 23
percent ad valorem duty on
canned apples, which for
merly entered the United
Kingdom duty free.
Despite this, and the poor
showing so far in the United
Kingdom, sales to Europe
could improve as the season
progresses as a result of the
severely reduced crops in
France - Western Europe’s
major apple exporter - and
West Germany - a leading
importer.
The Nova Scotia apple
industry also has been
concerned over recent
restrictive moves by
Jamaica and Barbados.
The Barbados Govern
ment, to counter an im
balance of payments, im
posed restrictions on imports
of nonessential products in
February 1974. These
restrictions included
licensing measures for
apples that permit limited
imports on a market-share
basis.
Jamaica’s more severe
global embargo on a number
of nonessential products has
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effectively banned imports
of Canadian apples.
The major market for
Canadian apples • the United
States • took 70.3 million
pounds last year, or 22
percent less than in 1972-73.
Still, these accounted for
over 70 percent of all
Canada’s apple exports,
while more than 90 percent
of its canned apples and over
half its apple juice ship
ments also moved to the
United States.
At the same time,
Canadian apple imports
from the United States last
year soared more than 55
percent above those of 1972-
73 to over 95 million pounds.
This amounted to some 80
percent of total Canadian
apple imports, while the
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United States was also the
main supplier of Canada’s
dried and canned apple
purchases.
On the domestic market,
fresh apple prices were high
this year, and processors
endured a tight supply
situation as a result of the
1973 shortfall. In fact, the
Ontario apple crop was sold
out at the producer level by
May.
Consequently, average
farm prices received by
Canadian apple growers rose
sharply. Ontario apple
growers, for instance,
received an average of 8.52
cents per pound for their 1973
crop, compared with 4.47
cents for the previous year’s.
Each year’s apple crop
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