“We will be around 65% down on the early varieties, mid-season varieties may also be down"
Initially Chilean cherry growers were expecting a good season with good volumes of fruit, but rain in November put paid to that. The country also saw floods through the winter which they were not accustomed to.
“In the spring, just before harvest we got rain in our cherry growing regions, then 10 days later just as we had started picking, we got more rain,” explains Boris
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