Chilean farmers estimate 150 million dollars losses in fruit.

The losses of fruit producers add up to around 150 million dollars, as a result of "Agricultural Catastrophe", reports Fedefruta. Despite this, there are producers who lost 100 percent of their crops.

As for table grapes, they quantify a damage of 53 percent in mid-season varieties. As for plums, peaches and nectarines, there is a 30 percent damage in volume per hectare at harvest. Losses in blueberries total 32 percent of what was left to work in the orchards, mostly from Ñuble to the south. The calculated damage in apples and pears is 21 percent by volume per hectare.

The register of the fruit union shows that 78.2 percent of the fruit growers of the Valparaíso Region were damaged by the rains; in the Metropolitan Region they calculated 66.7 percent; and in O'Higgins, which is the main growing area in the country, they calculated 85 percent damage. Meanwhile, 57.2 percent of the Maule producers suffered some kind of problem due to bad weather.

Among those surveyed, on the fruit split reported 79.7 percent; on the fall of fruit - 41.5 percent; the fall of trees - 17.8 percent; the fall or deterioration of orchard structures - 9.7 percent.   3.8 percent had problems with their irrigation systems, and 3.1 percent had hail damage.

source: fedefruta