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Almond demand strong, acres up, supply strong...Bees and water are the unknowns right now...

From NurtaIngredients

Total shipments of California almonds were up 18 per cent in 2007/8 compared to the previous year, according to the Almond Board of California, which takes these stats as a sign of the nuts’ ongoing popularity worldwide.

The board says total worldwide shipments for the harvest year amounted to 1.26bn pounds. The harvest for the year was 1.38bn pounds, 24 per cent up on the year before.

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Fifty-four per cent of the last year’s exports made their way to Western Europe, with Spain and Germany cited as the top two destinations.

According to data from Mintel’s Global New Products Database, cited by the board, almonds were used in 22 per cent of new nut-containing products in 2007; almond-containing new product launches increased by 26 per cent on the previous year.

Almonds have been proving popular in a broad range of food products, including cereals, snacks, confections and desserts. In the Asian market (particularly China, Japan and India), which accounted for 23 per cent of exports in 2007/8, almonds are most commonly used in confectionery products.

Positive predictions

There are indications that the soaring demand for almonds will be met with increasing supply in the 2008/9 harvest year. The Almond Board of California said recently that next year’s crop objective is 1.5bn pounds, based on 660,000 bearing acres.

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