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Heavy rains in Chile damage grape crop and more
Just as Chile’s grape season is starting to ramp up – with volumes strengthening these past two weeks – heavy rains have hit all the growing regions in the country. Mike Asdoorian of DLJ Produce shares: “The rainfall was very widespread, falling from Central Chile and growing regions further south. Most growers got anywhere from 1.75 to 2+ inches, with the metropolitan area of Santiago and Valpraiso being hit the hardest. It is pretty catastrophic, especially because it was very unexpected for this time of the year.”
Full extent of damage still unknown
While it is still too early to tell what the full extent of the damage will be, the preliminary reports are not positive. “We have seen that there was quite a bit of field damage, such as grape vines collapsing. Stone fruit trees have been affected, too, and concerns for brown rot and mildew are high right now. Blueberries have also suffered damage. The overall loss for the
Storms hit Chilean fruit
Intense rainfall and hail have caused an agricultural catastrophe in some of Chiles major fruit growing regions
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Chilean fruit growers are counting the cost of devastating storms that have caused significant damage to a range of crops, particularly table grapes.
Jorge Valenzuela, president of Fedefruta, said heavy rain on 29 January in the Valparaíso, Metropolitana and O Higgins areas had caused an “agricultural catastrophe” on a level fruit growers had not seen before.
“At this moment, we see that the most affected fruit crop is table grapes, and we estimate that 50 per cent of the mid-season varieties, which were about to be harvested between Valparaíso and O Higgins, have split,” Valenzuela said.
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