Chilean cherries face two major challenges this season, volume and fruit fly

Published 2024년 10월 10일

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The Chilean cherry season for the 2024-2025 is set to start with a projected growth of 60% in volume compared to the previous season, but faces challenges such as fruit fly and quality concerns with the increased volume. To address these issues, Frutas de Chile held a webinar and plans to invest over 9 million dollars in direct promotion. The sector had expected to be fruit fly-free by the end of October, but conditions have been slower than expected, delaying campaigns and potentially affecting air shipments to China.

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The Chilean cherry season is warming up to start the first harvests of the 2024-2025 season, but the challenges do not stop and this season an extra ingredient has been added for producers and exporters, we are referring to the fruit fly. Given its relevance for the sector, Frutas de Chile held the webinar "Preparing the 2024-2025 Cherry Season under phytosanitary challenges." The person in charge of welcoming the virtual meeting was Miguel Canala-Echeverría, general manager of Frutas de Chile, who was clear in saying that "this season we are going to have two important challenges; the fruit fly is a matter that there is a lot of concern regarding a series of operational aspects of the movement of the fruit, cold treatment, etc. Also the expected growth of 60% of the volume compared to last season." For her part, the president of the Cherry Committee of Frutas de Chile, Claudia Soler, indicated that "the first estimate is 131 million boxes of 658,000 tons. We had initially ...

Source: MXfruit