Chile set to export peaches and apricots to China this season

Published Dec 13, 2023

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China has updated its list of permitted fruits for export, now including Chilean peaches and apricots. After inspections in November, 109 peach orchards and 15 apricot orchards in Chile were granted export codes to China. Chile exported approximately 270,000 metric tons of stone fruit in 2022, with half of that amount going to the Chinese market, and this is expected to increase with the addition of peaches and apricots to the exports.

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On Dec. 6, the General Administration of Customs of China updated its list of fruits permitted to be exported to China and the companies allowed to deal with such exports, with one notable change being the addition of Chilean peaches and apricots. In November, inspectors from the Department of Animal and Plant Quarantine of the GACC visited the producing regions in Chile to conduct technical inspections of the orchards and packaging facilities that had applied to export peaches or apricots to China. According to the list released by the GACC, the initial batch of enterprises granted export codes includes 109 peach orchards and 39 packaging facilities, along with 15 apricot orchards and 27 packaging facilities. According to data from the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture’s Office of Agricultural Studies and Planning, Chile’s peach cultivation area in 2022 totaled 1,851.2 hectares, with 53% concentrated in the O’Higgins region and 20% in the Valparaíso region. Meanwhile, the apricot ...

Source: Producereport