date:Dec 04, 2013
The normal peak season for exports of California citrus to China has arrived, but shippers are still waiting for an agreement to allow the fruit back into the country.
China banned California product but not that of Florida or Texas in April after finds of phytophthora syringae, or brown rot, in some citrus shipments. The ban cost California growers a market for valencias, their summer orange, among other items.
Jim Cranney, president of the California Citrus Quality Council, and Joel Nelsen