Chinese advances in Chile
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For more than twenty years, successive Chilean governments, on both the right and the left, have sought to integrate their country, with its back to the Andes mountains, into the Pacific rim’s flourishing economy. Chile has already tied itself to Asia and other parts of the world through Latin America’s most extensive web of free trade agreements, including the first and, arguably, the most advanced FTA with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the 2005 Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (P4), the 2018 Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP-11), and the Pacific Alliance, among others.
Argentina sets the production cost of apples and pears at $ 0.26 per kilo
The Fruit Contracting Board determined that the production cost for pears and apples for the 2020/2021 fruit season is $ 0.26 per kilo.
In a meeting on Friday, February 5, the Board presented the new production costs and the different variables that were taken into account to determine them.
The meeting was attended by the president of the Federation of Fruit Producers of Rio Negro and Neuquen, Sebastian Hernandez; the Secretary of Fruit Growing, Facundo Fernandez; the Undersecretary of Fruit Growing Pablo De Azevedo; the legal advisor, Fernando Segura; provincial legislators Ignacio Casamiquela, Elbi Cides, and Marcela Avila; and Adalberto Santagni from the Alto Valley National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA).
Chile: Late-season red grapes spared in mixed picture for rain-hit crops
February 04 , 2021
A Chilean fruit industry representative says that while mid-season grapes in central regions were hit hard by the heavy rains last weekend, it seems that late-season red varieties are unaffected.
Blueberries still to be harvested have also been significantly affected, while there is damage reported to peaches and plums, according to the chief of Chile s Federation of Fruit Producers (Fedefruta), Jorge Valenzuela.
The cherry and avocado harvests had largely already wrapped up so these crops are unimpacted.
Valenzuela said he was most worried about table grapes between the central Valparaiso and O Higgins regions in terms of damage.
Storm in Chile affects thousands of farmers
Storm in Chile affects thousands of farmers
Santiago de Chile, Feb 2 (Prensa Latina) Thousands of farmers were affected by the storm that hit central and southern Chile last weekend, with damages estimated in the millions and possible effects on fruit exports.
The president of the Federation of Fruit Producers, Jorge Valenzuela, declared to the press that we are standing on top of a disaster and in a first balance of the damage he pointed out that the white table grape harvest was the most affected, with losses between 50 and one hundred percent in the regions of Valparaíso and O Higgins.
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.