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Chile: Fedefruta voices concerns for potential lockdowns during peak fruit harvest
December 10 , 2020
A Chilean fruit industry representative has voiced concern about the availability of seasonal workers in key production areas like the northern Atacama region, where the table grape harvests and now getting underway.
Jorge Valenzuela, President of Chile s Fruit Growers Association (Fedefruta), said that restrictions stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic have made it hard to receive workers from outside of the country.
“The pandemic is clearly complicating both the availability of workers and the quality of labor, he said.
In the midst of cherry harvest in the central region and the beginning of the grape harvest in the north, there is growing concern of an impending second wave of Covid-19 in January which would likely bring about new lockdowns in cities and growing regions at peak season.