Only 18-22 million of the 60 million boxes that come from the affected regions could be exported
This communiqué expresses the deep concern that the Research and Development Commission for Table Grapes in Chile, UVANOVA, has about the damages and the consequences to the grape industry of the climactic event affecting the country between the Aconcagua area in the North, to the Region VII in the South.
The damages can be summarized as the concurrence of three main factors:
- The large amount of rain, which has ranged from 25 mm to 100 mm.
- The number of days that the fruit remained in a free water condition (3 at least).
Chile: Asoex cuts table grape export forecast by 19%
February 23 , 2021
Last week the Chilean table grape industry made the second estimate of shipments of the fruit for the 2020-21 season, as reported by the President of ASOEX, Ronald Bown Fernández.
This new estimate corresponds to the information provided by 38 companies, which as a whole make up 59 percent of the volume exported last season 2019-20.
“After the analysis that was done last week with the companies within the sector and after evaluating the effects of the rains for the 2020-21 season, we expect to export a total of 66.3 million boxes of table grapes equivalent to 8.2 kilograms, Fernández said.