In Chile, Minister Valenzuela inaugurated the Paine watermelon season and highlighted this year's production

The Minister of Agriculture, Esteban Valenzuela, arrived at the Lo Valledor Wholesale Market to lead the launch of the Paine watermelon season, where he stressed that a production of about three million watermelons is expected for this period. “This Christmas, if there is a good moment when a family comes together, sharing a watermelon from Paine where, at the end of the 19th century, this tradition of this wonderful product that comes from the most fertile lands of Africa, from the Nile (…) began (…) We hope that There are up to 3 million watermelons, there are almost 3,000 hectares that, in different areas of the country, but especially in Paine, where the best watermelon is found, the tradition," said Minister Valenzuela during the inauguration. Like most vegetables, the price of the product has a direct and inverse relationship with the volume present in the market, with watermelons concentrated in the summer period. In this sense, the Secretary of State pointed out that "here ...