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While Chile remains the tenth largest producer of seeds in the world and the United States is the largest market for Genetically Engineered (GE) seeds, seed developers and researchers....

On Monday, November 12, a highly unusual hail storm damaged fruit crops that were in development in the O’Higgins region, one of the top fruit producing areas in Chile.

For marketing year (MY) 2018/19, Post estimates Chile’s apple production will reach 1.24 million metric tons (MMT) and 720,000 MT of exports assuming average yields, and a 4.2 percent decrease....

In January- April MY2015/16 raisin exports increased 24 percent in volume and 1.9 percent in value over the same period MY2014/15.

A harmful algae bloom, which has been attributed to the El Niño impact, caused losses of 100,000 MT of Chile’s salmon production -- approximately 12 percent of Chile’s annual production....