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Due to the presence of the El Niño current, rains were close to normal levels in most of the country 2015.

Chile’s annual raisin production in MY 2015/2016 is expected to slightly increase to 70,000 MT due to improved climatic conditions during the season...

Post assisted importers to clear 44.6 tons of Cheeses, worth U.S. $ 173,200 that was detained at the port of San Antonio due to missing required labeling information.

Agricultural biotechnology is not a priority for Chile’s current Administration. The situation in Chile remains the same as last year and is expected to remain that way through this Administration.

The Ministry of Health published on June 26, 2015 the implementing regulation to Law 20606 that regulates the labeling of the nutritional compositions of food products, Decree 13, 2015.

Frost conditions in CY 2014 and temperature variations impact Chile’s apple production in its principle production regions.

FAS/Colombia is writing a series of reports on the opportunities and challenges for agriculture under the Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA), which went into force in May 2012.

U.S. agricultural exports to South America nearly doubled in the past four years, reaching a record of more than $8 billion in calendar year 2014.

Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) officials report that nearly 45,000 animals have been affected by the Calbuco volcano eruption in the Los Lagos Region (Region X) of Chile.

On April 22, Chile’s Calbuco volcano in the Los Lagos Region” (the lakes region) erupted, where much of Chile’s dairy, livestock and salmon production are centralized.

In MY 2014/15, a larger harvest area was realized for Chilean wheat over the previous marketing year (MY).

Chile recognizes the United States as a country of negligible risk for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and by doing it, lining up with the World Organization of Animal Health (OIE).