Chile: Stone Fruit Annual
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For the past decade, Chile’s planted cherry area maintained steady growth, due to its profitability. There is a high demand for Chilean cherries from the Chinese market, which receives over 91 percent of Chilean cherry export volume. Post estimates cherry production in marketing year (MY) 2024/25 to reach 500,000 metric tons (MT), a 6.8 increase over MY2023/24. Chilean cherry exports are forecast to increase by 7.6 percent, reaching 445,000 MT in MY 2023/25. In MY 2024/25, Post estimates nectarine and peach production to total 173,000 MT, a 0.6 percent increase over the previous year. Peach and nectarine exports are forecast to increase by 0.8 percent totaling 116,000 metric tons.
