The holiday menu includes dried fruits: Mendocino Manuel Viera tells where the different varieties come from and analyzes what

Due to certain things in life, and the decisive influence of North American culture on Christmas celebrations in the Southern Hemisphere countries, dried fruits are part of the celebration and family gatherings. So let's talk about dried fruits in Bichos de Campo. The activity of producing dried fruits in Argentina has quite a tradition, but it is also developing in an expansive way, incorporating new species and varieties. Unfortunately, there is very little statistics about these producers. The last national survey on these activities is about to turn ten years old, as it was carried out in 2016 at the initiative of the producers themselves. The idea came from the Association of Dried Fruits of Mendoza, and later it was taken up by the National University of Cuyo, the Secretariat of Agriculture and the ArgenINTA Foundation. To get an idea of the time that has passed, the national minister at that time was Luis Miguel Etchevehere. At that time, the plantations of Almond (Prunus ...