The Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture believes that damaging rain in May and June may result in a decline in Greek and Italian orange production, according to its web site.
The predicted crop is expected to be at 850,000 metric tons in the 2014-2015, down from 970,000 tons in the previous year.
A separate report states that Italy’s harvest will fall 5.6% to 1.7 million tons from November to October.