CALIFORNIA ALMOND SHIPMENTS SET RECORDS
SACRAMENTO - 08/12/04 - California almond growers will have harvested a record 1.02 billion pounds of almonds were shipped in the year ended July 31, according to the Almond Board of California.
It was the fifth straight year of record shipments.
Domestic shipments jumped 7%, while export shipments rose 3.11% with Russia importing a full 58% more almonds than the year before. The overseas sale of California-grown almonds during the year exceeded a state-record $1 billion in sales, a first among US horticultural products.
Almonds are the state's largest food export in value and tonnage with growers enjoying rising prices despite its second consecutive harvest of more than 1 billion pounds, the trade group said.
Returns to almond growers have increased gradually from less than $1 per pound in 1999 to between $1.70 and $2.00 per pound today.
California growers are forecast to plant an additional 250,000 acres by 2010 compared to some 550,000 acres today, and now claim a record 88% of total world almond production.
Just 60 years ago, Spain and Italy produced 80% of the world's almonds. Spain is now the largest single importer of US almonds and is expected to import more than 130 million pounds of California almonds by the end the 2003-04 season, up 24% over the previous year.
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