Chilean walnuts project to end exports with 175 thousand tons

We begin the sixth week of the year, at which time the last shipments of Chilean walnuts are already remaining, an ideal time to talk with the president of Chilenut, Juan Esteban Rodríguez, he analyzed the 2023 season, commented on the current situation of the crop and a projection season that starts on March 21. He commented that “2023 was a bad year in terms of price, given the slowness of the European market I would say that it was one of the darkest points of the season. Obviously we emphasize the positive of the growth in India, which allowed us to practically end the year sold again with a link stock of practically zero.” He explained that, at the industry level, there is little volume left to ship, which are those programs that were committed to shipping between January, February and balances of their products with dark industrial colors. "In essence, these are very low volumes and they normally finish trading between January, February and March in Latin America." He added ...