Chile expands cherry acreage by nearly 20 times in last 20 years

Published 2023년 3월 24일

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Chile's cherry plantations have seen a dramatic expansion, reaching 16.4% of the country's fruit tree area, driven by increasing export demand, especially from China. The cherry tree cultivation area increased by 25.7% in 2022, covering 61,559 hectares, up from 3,241 in 2000. However, this growth brings challenges for producers with higher production costs due to climate or water conditions. Additionally, the surge in cherry cultivation has led to a decrease in the cultivation of other fruits like apples and table grapes.

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Cherry plantations in Chile have expanded dramatically in the last two decades as export demand has risen, making it the nation’s top tree fruit.The trend continued in 2022, as cherry tree hectares showed a 25.7 percent increase from the previous season, as reported by Simfruit, using figures from the Office of Agrarian Studies and Policies (ODEPA).The new hectares of cherry planted in 2022 (12,599) are greater that the total number of crops of this species that existed in 2009 (12,468).With this, cherry tree acreage reached 16.4 percent of the entire area of fruit trees in the country, followed by walnut (12.3 percent) and table grapes (11.5 percent).In 2000, ODEPA registered 3,241 hectares of cherry trees, and since then the area of these plantations has multiplied by 19 times to 61,559 hectares in 2022.The boom in cherries is mainly explained by the consumption in China, which in the 2021/2022 season concentrated more than 95 percent of Chilean exports.However, this explosive ...

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