Argentina: More than 87 thousand tons of pears and apples were exported to the Brazilian market

(NAP) During the first half of this year, the National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (Senasa) certified the export of more than 87 thousand tons of pears and apples to Brazil from the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén. This amount of fresh fruit exported indicates that the increasing trend evident in recent years for this type of shipments to Brazil continues. Of the total of these fruits exported, within the framework of the respective Senasa Program, 75,261 tons corresponded to pears and 12,321 tons to fresh apples to Brazil. Brazil, the main buyer of these fruits from North Patagonia, is one of the most demanding countries in terms of health and quality. In fact, the absence in the neighboring country of codling moth, the main pest of Valletta fruit growing, led to the implementation of complex procedures to ensure its control and maintain the commercial flow. These procedures constitute the Work Plan for the export of apples, pears and quinces from Argentina to Brazil ...