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Chile: Table grape harvests still heavily impacted by rains
February 19 , 2021
The Chilean table grape harvests remain heavily impacted by the unseasonal rains two weeks ago with packing operations still at a standstill in many places, industry body Fedefruta said.
Fedefruta president Jorge Valenzuela said the damage estimate is worse than initially thought, with around three-quarters of white grapes and a third of red varieties lost from the central and southern regions.
The damage caused by the rains was reportedly exacerbated by rotting and fungal diseases in the fruit, brought on by low temperatures in February as well as high humidity in the fields, according to Valenzuela.
February 02 , 2021
The heavy and unseasonal rainfall in much of Chile over the weekend has caused an unprecedented disaster for the fruit industry, according to the chief of the Federation of Fruit Producers (Fedefruta).
Jorge Valenzuela said the torrential rain, landslides and hail that hit central and southern growing regions in the middle of the summer harvest season, with table grapes the hardest-hit crop. These rains were a climatic phenomenon out of proportions, a catastrophe that the fruit sector had not seen before, Valenzuela told Agriculture Minister María Emilia Undurraga on Monday. At this moment, we see that the most affected fruit crop is table grapes, Valenzuela said.
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