The first export of blueberries to China left from Concordia
Two full pallets left this Monday night from the fields that Berries Del Sol has in Colonia Ayuí bound for the city of Shenzhen, which means "deep trenches" due to the irrigation structures used to irrigate rice fields, irrigated from the Rio de las Perlas that runs through it, the Silicon Valley of China, a city with more than 50 thousand new millionaires, with skyscrapers of 599 meters high and 117 floors. The city that is home to the cell phone company Huawei and ZTE and the BYD hybrid vehicle factories is located in the province of Canton, with 12 million inhabitants and around 50.000 millionaires among its population.
The first Argentinean blueberries that the country exports to China were there. After years of negotiations, just a few weeks ago the Asian giant enabled the import of fresh fruit and today begins a cycle that is expected to have increasing demand.
The itinerary of the fruit
The shipment by the company Berries Del Sol consists of 2 pallets of blueberries - about 720 kilos - of the Emerald variety.
According to Alejandro Pannunzio, representative of the company and president of the Blueberry Producers Association of the Argentine Mesopotamia (APAMA), the route includes the departure from the company's headquarters in Concordia, Entre Ríos, to Ezeiza, by truck. Then, the air route contemplates stops in Istanbul and Hong Kong, and from there again a terrestrial section to Shenzhen.
To finalize the shipment, says Pannunzio, the fruit was previously treated according to the sanitary protocols agreed with the Chinese sanitary authority, "which implies that some lots of the field were reserved to carry out that specific treatment, betting on the opening of the market," he details. . "Those products that were applied were possible due to the steps taken a year and a half earlier trying to expand the use of phytosanitary products in joint work with SENASA," he added.
In addition to the forecast regarding phytosanitary clearances, "we also had to follow a preparation routine with steps to follow exclusive to the shipment to China, such as allocating the fruit to an exclusive cold chamber for that shipment," he says.
After loading the fruit on Monday at midnight in Concordia, the shipment arrived in Ezeiza during the morning of Tuesday and they embarked by air to China during the afternoon. In this instance Pannunzio was accompanied by Agroindustry Secretary Luis Miguel Etchevehere, and SENASA Vice President Guillermo Rossi, together with other national authorities.
During the trip, the fruit is kept at zero degrees and will reach its destination in 48 hours.
"We hope that importers are satisfied so that immediately new orders are produced," concluded Pannunzio.
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