date:Mar 18, 2013
plantation for fresh and 6,700 hectares (8,200 hectares in 2008 and 35,000 in the 80s) for the processing.
At that rate, the number in relation to the area change of planted table peaches will be reversed in three years, said Enio Todeschini, agronomist from the Emater RS. The state produces a total of 120,000 tons per year, more than half of the national volume.
Argentina, Chile, Spain and Greece are responsible for the farmers' recent lack of interest in investing in peaches in the country,