Chile: O'Higgins' fruit area almost reaches 100 thousand hectares, especially of cherries and European plums

The Natural Resources Information Center, Ciren, announced the 2024 Fruit Cadastre of the O'Higgins Region, which reflects that the fruit-growing area reaches 99,901.51 hectares, dominated in that total by the fruit species of cherry with 29,934.61 hectares; European plum with 9,699.83 hectares; table vine with 8,917.52 hectares; walnut with 7,331.69 hectares and nectarine with an area of 5,694.48 hectares. This cadastre was carried out with funding from the Office of Agrarian Studies and Policies, ODEPA and consisted of a census investigation of the entire universe of properties with fruit plantations, obtaining information on surface area, infrastructure and fruit agroindustry. To obtain this data, CIREN conducted 9,118 surveys on farms with a planted area equal to or greater than 0.5 hectares and over 50 plants in the case of persimmon, passion fruit, babaco, guava, feijoa, mango, pistachio and date palm, which provided information on fruit area, number of trees planted, year ...