Chilean cherry: potential still growing

  • Published on 2/01/2018 - Published by BENOIT-CELEYRETTE Cécilia
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Cherry planting in Chile has continued at a high rate of + 9 % per year on average for the past twenty years. The increase even seems to have been speeding up in recent years, with another 31 % rise forecast for this campaign, i.e. 29 500 ha in total! It can still be explained by strong Chinese demand, which absorbed 80 % of volumes (74 800 t in 2016-17, i.e. + 8 %), and also by the conversion from other crops such as the grape and apple, which are somewhat struggling, by the higher planting density and by the development of orchards further south. In fact, production was hard until now because of heavy precipitation, but it has been facilitated by installing protection, feasible given the current profitability. So production should increase, especially since the winter climate conditions have been favourable, with enough cold hours and a fairly warm spring which helped the fruit mature early, meaning that the harvest is currently ten days ahead of schedule. So forecasts for the moment are predicting a potential of nearly 123 000 t (+ 7 %), between the increased yields of the new varieties and the entry into production of young orchards, for an export potential of nearly 104 000 t (+ 8 %).

Source: Infofruit

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