Apple producers seek solutions to their most difficult moment - Redagrícola Chile

The sector, which has been in decline for a decade, has seen its difficulties worsen due to rising costs and falling prices. Those who persist seek solutions in new varieties and technologies that improve quality and yield. Others bet on a market recovery in the coming season. He is alarmed and his voice sounds annoyed on the other end of the phone. Just days before the end of this year, one of the largest apple growers in Chile, Antonio Walker, says that "it's the worst apple season I've had to experience in 35 years." He is not the only one with that opinion. Dole, the country's largest apple exporter, also sees it that way. Its technical head of pomegranates and with almost 40 years in the field, the agronomist Vicente Vargas, finds it difficult to find in his memory a situation like the current one: "We are facing one of the most complicated moments that the apple sector has experienced in Chile," he says. The unpublished diagnosis is shared by several producers, exporters and ...