The O'Higgins Region is a world leader in cherry production

The cherry season concluded and as reported by the Chilean Fruit Cherry Committee, this year 413,979 tons were exported, of which 149,663 were sent from the O'Higgins Region, which for the president of Frutas de Chile, Iván Marambio was a very good figure, since this year's cherry season nationwide started “with a lot of uncertainty due to the two climatic problems that we had during 2023, first was the lack of cold hours during the winter, that is, a winter hotter with minimum temperatures above normal and secondly, these heavy rains that we had at the beginning of November, which honestly scared us a lot.” This is due to the fact that the November rain generated large losses in the cherry sector and caused producers to modify their projections, from 96 million boxes to the same as last year. According to Marambio “the Chilean Fruit Cherry Committee, which is under our wing, lowered the estimate to 81.5 million boxes, more or less, finally there were 83 million boxes, the same ...