Extreme weather and plant disease cause worldwide orange juice scarcity

There is currently a scarcity of orange juice across the world – we are, at this moment, in a very difficult situation, as orange juice is at the lowest availability for more than 50 years.

This severe shortage is due to crop failures in Florida and historically low juice inventories in Brazil. With extreme weather becoming more frequent and tree diseases diminishing harvest yields, price increases are expected.

Suppliers and manufacturers are working hard to manage the situation to limit these shortages but realistically this situation could be with us for a while.

Read the article on this in the Grocer.