24 BULLETIN 483, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ITALY. 



PRODUCTION OF CITRUS FRUITS. 



The latest estimates of the area under citrus fruits give it as 

 111,000 acres especially devoted to their cultivation and 154,000 

 acres under mixed crop. Of the area especially devoted to the 

 cultivation of citrus fruits 99.7 per cent is located in six departments, 

 namely, Sicily 70.9 per cent, Calabria 18.7 per cent, Campania 6.9 

 per cent, Apulia 1.4 per cent, Sardinia 1.2 per cent, and Liguria 0.6 

 per cent. 



The annual production of all citrus fruits in Italy for the five years 

 1909-1913 averaged 867,000 tons, as compared with 966,000 tons 

 in 1913, 884,000 tons in 1914, and 893,000 tons in 1915. The six 

 departments named above contributed 99.8 per cent of the total pro- 

 duction for the five years 1909-1913, and 99.7 per cent for each of 

 the three years 1913-1915. Sicily produced 70.6 per cent of all the 

 citrus fruits grown in Italy during the five years named, Calabria 

 13.5 per cent, and Campania 9.1 per cent. In 1914 and 1915 the 

 proportion produced by Sicily was 72.2 per cent and 74.1 per cent, 

 respectively. 



Statistics of production of the various kinds of citrus fruits are not 

 given for all Italy. For the years 1913 and 1914, however, data con- 

 cerning the production of lemons, oranges, and mandarins are given for 

 the six leading departments already mentioned. The total combined 

 production of the fruits specified in these six departments was 962,000 

 tons in 1913 and 878,000 tons in 1914. 



Lemons. — The production of lemons was 474,000'tons in 1913 and 

 471,000 tons in 1914. Expressed in terms of boxes containing 75 

 pounds of fruit, the production of lemons in these two years was 

 equivalent to 12,651,000 boxes and 12,549,000 boxes, respectively. 

 Sicily produced 84 per cent of the lemons in 1913 and 86.6 per cent in 

 1914, Campania 5.2 per cent and 6.3 per cent, respectively, and 

 Calabria 6.4 per cent, and 3.3 per cent, respectively. 



Oranges. — The production of oranges was 453,000 tons in 1913 and 

 378,000 tons in 1914. On the basis of 64 pounds of fruit to a box, the 

 production of oranges in these two years was equivalent to 14,165,000 

 boxes and 11,798,000 boxes, respectively. Sicily produced 61 per 

 cent of the oranges in 1913 and 57.2 per cent in 1914, Calabria 19.3 

 per cent and 18.9 per cent, respectively, and Campania 14.4 per cent 

 and 17.9 per cent, respectively. 



Mandarins. — The production of mandarins was 35,000 tons in 1913 

 and 30,000 tons in 1914. Slightly more than one-half of the mandarin 

 crop was grown in Sicily. 



