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For the third consecutive week, the total volume of avocados in the United States is down, while prices are up for virtually all sizes.

In the framework of the official visit to Chile of the President of Vietnam, Luong Cuong, the Minister of Agriculture, Esteban Valenzuela, together with the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) of Vietnam, Le Minh Hoan and his delegation, visited the field and packing of the company Garcés Fruit, to learn about the development of the export process of this Chilean fruit. “We received here at the tip of Codegua, in the O’Higgins region, the Minister of Agriculture of Vietnam, with whom we are seeking to expand the offer of export products, of white meats such as pork, red meats, and also to open the market to kiwi. It is important that we achieve the opening of this fruit, because we have worked and have shown the importance of traceability and that everything is done with phytosanitary safety to maintain Chile as a world leader in the export of fresh fruit,” said Minister Valenzuela. Currently, the process of entering kiwi into Vietnam is underway.

South Korea was the last Asian country visited by the public-private technical delegation of the Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) and Frutas de Chile. In that country, progress was made in opening up to fresh Chilean plums, the analysis of cold treatment in transit for Chilean fruit exports, as well as electronic certification. During this visit, the Chilean delegation met with authorities and professionals from the Plant Quarantine Department of the APQA of Korea (Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency), and the Chilean Embassy in that country. In addition, the Garak Wholesale Market was visited, where the visitors met with representatives of the Cooperation and Planning Division. A delegation that included the head of the Division of Agricultural, Forestry and Seed Protection of the Agricultural and Livestock Service (s), SAG, Marco Muñoz, and the general manager of Frutas de Chile, Miguel Canala-Echeverría.