2. Quality of this year’s outdoor grown mandarin oranges improves
Sweetness and acidity recovers to last year’s level

The quality of this year’s outdoor grown mandarin oranges has restored to last year's level.

The Jeju Agricultural Research and Extension Services conducted a survey on the quality of outdoor grown mandarin oranges at 14 farms in the island from November 20th to 26th. It found that this year’s harvest has recovered its sweetness and acidity level to that of last year, with sweetness levels of 10.2 BRICs and acidity content of 0.95 percent.

Researchers explained that the quality of local mandarin oranges have improved over the past two months due to favorable weather conditions.

However, they pointed out that the overall drop in quality of fruits due to the illegal distribution of substandard fruits and picking fruits at once due to temporary labor shortages will make it difficult to raise the fruit’s prices.

올해산 노지감귤 당도 향상…품질 회복

올해산 제주 노지감귤 품질이
지난해 수준 만큼 회복된 것으로 조사됐습니다.

제주도농업기술원이 지난달 20일부터 26일까지
도내 14개 농가에서 노지감귤 품질을 조사한 결과
당도 10.2 브릭스,
산함량 0.95%로
지난해 수준으로 품질이 회복됐습니다.

최근 두달 동안
기온이나 강수량, 일조시간 등 기상여건이 양호해
감귤 품질이 나아진 것으로 분석됐습니다.

다만 비상품 감귤 출하와
노동력 부족에 따른 일시 수확으로
품질이 저하되는 점은
가격 상승에 부정적인 요인으로 꼽혔습니다.