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Even though 2020 is behind us andEmpty grocery shelves Send a thing from the past, a popular fruit might miss the product section later this year. Yes, there could be an orange shortage!

The experts startedpredict a drop in the number of boxes collected oranges back in August 2020. Official numbers of the end of the year of theU.s. Ministry of Agriculture Posted in December confirmed their fears:Orange production for the whole country was on 11.8% for the year. (This is not the only element that could be missing at the grocery store, here is the8 groceries who can soon be in the short diet.)

In California, the harvest was down 5.3%. In Texas, it increased by 12.3%, but the state produced only 64,000 tonnes compared to California's 2,020,000. Florida, orange production was down 16.8% and low figures continue to worry of industry experts.

"In general, as a producer in the state, we are all concerned about the industry," Louis Schacht, a third-generation citrus grower with a grove near the Atlantic coast of Florida, said12News local press station. "A lot of producers simply did not have money to put in their culture for this season, so much of your production will be because of this year this year."

Since 2005, Florida's oranges suffer from a bacterial disease entitled "Greening" which infects trees that then produce smaller fruits, according toThe big book. Schacht says it's a great reason why he and other producers have not planted new citrus recently. It can take a tree of 15 years cultivated seeds to reach maturity and start producing fruit,Sfgate says. So, fewer trees can probably mean smaller harvests that last 2021 and beyond.

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