Chile: The total volume will not exceed 60 million boxes

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Published Mar 14, 2024

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Chile's grape exports are projected to peak in early April, with estimates revised down to 55-60 million boxes due to a 20-25% fall in certain regions. This year, Chile will export more licensed grape varieties than traditional ones, with the US being the main market due to a drop in Californian grape production. The article also highlights the need for the grape market to focus on quality over commoditization due to high production costs, and the importance of balancing supply and demand. It also notes that poor quality vines have been replaced with new vines of licensed varieties.

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Chile is in the middle of the season, beginning the peak of exports, an ideal time to carry out an analysis of the current situation and a projection of how the Chilean grape campaign will end. It is in this context that Portalfruticola.com spoke with the president of Uvanova, the agronomist and advisor Rafael Rodríguez who indicated that "we are in the middle of the season and the most important shipments of grapes are going to be made from now until the first or second week of April. He indicated that initially Frutas de Chile's estimates projected more than 62 million boxes, “and the truth is that in the north, in the third and fourth regions, they have fallen by 20 to 25% compared to their estimate. It was expected that the Fifth region, the Metropolitan and the sixth, would come with a very good load and could even compensate for the fall in the north.” He explained that in the third and fourth regions the harvests were brought forward, but on the contrary in the fifth, the ...

Source: MXfruit