The total volume of orange juice exported last month was 170K tons, down 32.4% from 251.4K tons in March 2018 and 22.6% from 219.5K tons of February 2019. Data take 19 working days from last month. With the result of March, cumulative sales of juice in the first quarter of 2019 reached 527.8K tons, 13.9% less than the total of 613.1K tons shipped in the same period of 2018. Revenues accumulated between January and March totaled US $ 429.4 million, down 20.4% from US $ 539.7 million for the same period in 2018. In March, sales of concentrated and frozen orange juice (FCOJ) moved US $ 53.4 million, down 44.4% compared to US $ 96.1 million in March 2018 and an increase of 21.4% over the total of US $ 44 million in February 2019. FCOJ’s export volume stood at 28.3K tons in March, 46.3% less than the total of 52.7K tons in March 2018, but 23 % higher than the volume of 23K tons of February of this year. Sales of non-concentrated and non-frozen juice (NFC) sales in the third month of 2019 were US $ 80.1 million, down 33.9% from US $ 121.2 million in March 2018 and 44.5% compared to US $ 144.2 million in February 2019. The volume of exports of NFC was 141.7K tons last month, down 28.7% from 198.7K tons in March of last year and 27.9% against 196.6K tons in February of this year.
Source: Globo Rural Magazine