The O'Higgins Region is a world leader in cherry production

Published Apr 3, 2024

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The Chilean Fruit Cherry Committee reported a successful cherry season, exporting 413,979 tons despite climatic challenges, with the O'Higgins Region leading by exporting 149,663 tons. Despite a warmer winter and heavy November rains initially lowering expectations, the season matched the previous year's export figures of 83 million boxes, primarily to China, while also exploring market diversification, notably in India. The article also highlights the O'Higgins Region's global leadership in cherry production and the strategic shift in Chilean agriculture towards recognizing the contributions of various regions beyond the Metropolitan Region. This approach aims to expand the market reach of the region's agricultural products to tap into the purchasing power of 1.3 billion people worldwide.
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The cherry season concluded and as reported by the Chilean Fruit Cherry Committee, this year 413,979 tons were exported, of which 149,663 were sent from the O'Higgins Region, which for the president of Frutas de Chile, Iván Marambio was a very good figure, since this year's cherry season nationwide started “with a lot of uncertainty due to the two climatic problems that we had during 2023, first was the lack of cold hours during the winter, that is, a winter hotter with minimum temperatures above normal and secondly, these heavy rains that we had at the beginning of November, which honestly scared us a lot.” This is due to the fact that the November rain generated large losses in the cherry sector and caused producers to modify their projections, from 96 million boxes to the same as last year. According to Marambio “the Chilean Fruit Cherry Committee, which is under our wing, lowered the estimate to 81.5 million boxes, more or less, finally there were 83 million boxes, the same ...

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