Weather delays peach harvest in Rio Grande do Sul

The fruits present an average size due to low insolation, but the plants maintain good vigor. The production supplies the local market and other states, especially those in the Southeast, and the price at the markets varies between R$ 4.00 and R$ 8.00 per kilo. In the Pelotas region, the harvest of the earliest cultivars has begun. Emater informs that the producers "continue to carry out preventive treatments against diseases," with an emphasis on brown rot. They also monitor the population of fruit flies and apply toxic baits. The preserves industry has set the price of the fruit at R$ 2.10 per kilo for type I and R$ 1.85 for type II, values that, according to the report, "did not please the producers." In Soledade, the harvest of medium varieties, which have greater acceptance in the market, has begun. The other cultivars are in fruit formation or pre-maturation, while the management of tip-borers and treatments against brown rot in the early varieties continue. In the Santa ...