Argentina: "We lost 15% of the productive area in Concordia"
The president of APAMA, Alejandro Pannunzio, said that between the year 2016 and 2017, the crisis made disappear 150 hectares of plantation. The local referents bet on a fruit of excellent quality.
Facing what will be the harvest of this 2017, the president of the Association of Blueberry Producers of Argentine Mesopotamia, Alejandro Pannunzio announced that most of the representatives of the sector "we have very good expectations".
However, he clarified thatunfortunately I can not assure that this happens in most of the fields, since some plantations have had to close, fruit of the situation of the market of the last year".
During 2016, close to 2 million kilos of blueberries remained unharvested, due to the competitiveness of Peru, the fall in prices and the rise in costs in Argentina. At that time, APAMA itself described the situation as "the biggest stagnation after years of growth“. He also specified that between 2016 and 2017, “we lost an 15% of the productive area in Concordia".
Despite that hard blow, the producers who are still in the race "We try to have a product with the highest possible quality, because what we have in mind is that the one who decides our luck is the person when a gondola goes, where everyone looks for quality“said the interviewee.
But also, "It is true that we live a reality where all sectors recognize that for the regional economies the exchange rate is behind“. Stating that “nobody wants to take charge and say that the dollar is behind, until after we have a conflict“, explained the president of APAMA.
Pannunzio reiterated that the production continues to deal with “a very high internal cost", to which is added that"our main competitor, Peru, increases its supply in the market and that is going to lower prices”. Likewise, the local blueberry growers rely on the fact that "from the productive point of view we are in a very good situation", so "those variables that we do not manage" will be decisive."He concluded.
Source: Diario Río Uruguay
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