date:Feb 27, 2014
same period last year.
Isabel Urrutia, of IQonsulting, noted that, we exported 12,000 tons less to the United States between weeks 52 and 4 (from December to late January). She also said that, if we don't take the climate factor into account, estimates are that we didn't export about 9,000 tons because of the port strike and the Lobesia.
Prior to unforeseen port strike, blueberry exporters had decided to divert a portion of their production to the European and Asian markets in order to avoid