“Some growers in Chile lost all their fields, others are fully covered with mud or debris”
The latest bout of heavy rain in Chile has areas that received 400 mm of rain causing an estimated $400 million in damages. While this is an initial estimate, according to producers and Fedefruta, Chile’s fruit representative organisation, there are still fields which cannot be reached, with damages expected to amount to much more.
Juan Pablo Orozco, Agronomist at
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