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The Chilean food processing industry is a highly developed and competitive sector, playing a crucial role in the national economy.

For marketing year (MY) 2025/26, Post estimates that the wheat area harvested will total 193,000 hectares (ha), representing a 1.0 percent decrease from MY 2024/25 due to high input costs and low prices.

Beer is the most consumed alcoholic beverage in Chile and represents 77 percent of total sales of alcohol beverages by volume. Per capita consumption of beer has grown rapidly in the past 20 years Chile reaching 59 liters in 2022.

MY 2017/18 production is projected to decline by nearly five percent to 60,000 metric tons (MT) as yields are projected to return to historical levels and area harvested is expected to remain....

Post's intervention ensured that a poultry shipment valued at nearly $70,000 entered the Chilean market.