Paine watermelon season opens in Chile

Published Dec 5, 2020

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Chile's Minister of Agriculture, Antonio Walker, has inaugurated the watermelon season, congratulating the producers on their technification and resilience despite challenges like drought and pandemic. Watermelon occupies about 3.4% of the total vegetable area in Chile, with the majority of production in the Maule region. The mayors of Paine and Santiago have expressed the fruit's significance to the region's economy and culture. Minister Walker stressed the role of agriculture in the country's economic recovery, mentioning the sector's success in regaining jobs lost due to the pandemic.

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Minister Walker inaugurates the watermelon season in Paine and congratulates the producers' technification In October of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture, within the framework of the National Day of Fruits and Vegetables, conducted a survey in which watermelon was chosen as the favorite fruit of the Chileans. Santiago, December 3, 2020.- “The watermelon producers of Paine must be thanked for the effort they have made for production. We have learned a lot, about 10,000 watermelons are produced per hectare, between 3,000 and 4,000 plants per hectare, today all with technical irrigation and fertilization and with rootstocks, with a lot of technology. A plant produces 3 or 4 watermelons with excellent quality ”, with these words the Minister of Agriculture, Antonio Walker, recognized the efforts of the watermelon producers in Chile. The production of watermelons in our country represents around 3.4% of the total area of vegetables for the 2019/20 season, with 2,918 hectares, ...

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