The damage to the Chilean blueberry crop caused by last weekend’s heavy rains is not as serious as previously expected according to the Chilean Blueberry Committee.
The rains struck as Jewel, Star and O’Neal were being harvested in the VII and Metropolitan Regions, but CBC’s executive director Andrés Armstrong said the losses to the overall export volume would be minor. “We estimate that around 20-30 per cent of the remaining crop was lost, which equates to some 1,000 tonnes,” he said.
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