Chile Prunes Association and Rising Sun Chile seal an agreement to provide advice on project evaluation and search for financing sources for partners

As of July, an increase in electricity bills has begun to be recorded, after the unfreezing of the rates that were established in 2019 and the current debt with the electricity supply administrators. Thus, the operating costs and margins of fruit producers will be directly affected, for whom lower energy and water consumption are permanent factors of concern in recent years. According to the Chilean Plum Association, Chileprunes, for a medium-sized plum producer (30 hectares), which has technical irrigation (pumping), the average monthly cost of electricity is about $700,000, a value that can skyrocket. to about $2 million if there are dehydrating ovens. This is the profitability of 2-3 hectares per year. Given the concern about the impact on global competitiveness due to increases in electrical energy in the European plum producing sector, Jesús De La Riva, president of Ciruelas Chile A.G., and Thomas Holmes, sales team leader at Rising Sun Chile, sealed an agreement that ...