"We're about 6 to 8 years away from having the potential to compete against Chile's cherry"
Gabriela Mercedes Crespo, head of research on new crops at Agualima SAC and a researcher at Concytec, said that despite the lower number of cold hours, cherry studies were mainly being held on the northern coast of Peru. The mountains have better cold hours, but they have rainfall and frost limitations, as well as a lack of good roads which increases the logistical complexity of carrying
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