Ronald Bown Fernandez, Association of Fruit Exporters of Chile AG (ASOEX) 2020 was a year of great challenges, but the fruit industry was able to respond and adapt to them
The president of the Association of Fruit Exporters of Chile AG (ASOEX), Ronald Bown Fernandez, took stock of the sector s work in 2020, a year marked, mainly, by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each export season is different and presents challenges and opportunities for the Chilean fruit sector. However, the last two seasons (2019-2020 and 2020-2021) have probably been the most complex ones, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Once the pandemic began in international markets in 2019, ASOEX, our Safety Committee, and the Foundation for Fruit Development (FDF) focused on producing and updating prevention material against the disease. Our goal was to take care of our workers health while ensuring greater safety in each of our processes to safeguard our consumers safety, Ronald Bown stated.