In the Drôme, the apricot harvest is over for this summer and the producers are quite satisfied. It ended two weeks early:We arrived very early in the season. For the Bergeron apricot, the full harvest is July 14, whereas this year, everything was over. The predictions on global warming are here“, assures Bruno Darnaud, the president of the AOP peach and apricot of France in the Drôme.
“There is a drop in size which means that the apricots are smaller – Bruno Darnaud
The latter ensures that the harvest is down 15 to 20% compared to a normal year but that the Drôme people will still find some on the markets until the end of August. “There is a drop in size which makes the apricots smaller” he said, recalling that it rained very little in the department. The advantage is that this year’s apricots are very sweet “precisely because of this high heat“. According to him, the price should be lower to that of last year because Spain, the main competitor, lost a large part of its crop due to hailstorms.