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FRUIT BUSINESS FORUM is a business event with the participation of producers and exporters of fine food products from Catalonia, and importers and distributors of international markets.
The goal is to create a platform where the interests of all parties can come together to generate business flows.
FORMER EDITION
THE FRUIT SECTOR IN CATALONIA
Fresh fruit is one of the main agricultural productions in Catalonia due to its economic weight, the cultivated area, its relative importance in the production of both Europe and Spain, and its export orientation.
Catalonia is the most important area of sweet fruit production in Spain, which, at the same time, is the ninth world producer of peaches and nectarines, the eighteenth world producer of pears and the thirty-seventh of apples.
In the more than 55,000 hectares devoted to fruit trees, around a million tons of apples, pears, peaches and nectarines are produced annually.
Thanks to a territory rich in diversity and a temperate Mediterranean climate, Catalonia offers a good variety of fruit which, in addition, has a unique value, and is that cultivation is carried out mostly in accordance with the integrated production system.
Catalunya, best European region for the future*
The agri-food sector is the largest of the Catalan economy and one of the most dynamic export sectors. The volume and value of its exports are growing year after year.
Catalonia’s logistics network can serve 400 million consumers in under 48 hours, while its geostrategic location enables efficient intercontinental connections with Asia and America as well as optimum distribution to Europe and Africa.
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*Financial Times fDi Magazine ranking
Catalonia in figures
The Catalan agri-food sector, driver o the Catalan economy
The agri-food sector generates €38.2 Bn turnover, equivalent to 16.28% of Catalonia’s GDP, and directly employs 164,372 people. This makes it the region’s largest sector of the economy.
It comprises 57,423 agricultural holdings, 3,922 food and drink industries, and 436 establishments in the agri-food auxiliary industry.
The meat sector is the largest processed food sub-sector representing 32% of turnover volume, followed by fine food (30%), vegetable oils (9%), wine (7%), fruit and vegetables (4%), cereals and mill grain products (2%), and fish and seafood (1%).
The food and drink industry in Catalonia accounts for 23% of the sector turnover in Spain.
