In Argentina, quince production is promoted as an alternative crop to other fruit trees

For more than 10 years, INTA San Pedro has been supporting local producers in the development and implementation of strategies to promote the cultivation and commercial plantations of this fruit, as an alternative production to stone fruit and citrus. The National Institute of Agricultural Technology of Argentina (INTA) explained that in San Pedro, for 60 years, quince has been a fruit that is used for industrialization and that, currently, four companies are supplied with raw material from the northwest of the country, to process it as a solid candy in cans and bars. On the other hand, the nurseries in the area produce and market quince trees destined to supply family-scale plantations. Gabriel Valentini, a fruit researcher at the INTA San Pedro Agricultural Experimental Station, explained in statements collected by the entity that, given the initiative of fruit growers in the area to advance with the cultivation of this species and the lack of local information on ...