date:Feb 01, 2019
In 2015, Bolivia fresh and canned pineapple exports amounted to $5 million dollars, but in 2018 it only achieved sales for $175 thousand dollars. Despite the potential of the Cochabamba tropics, the fruit does not meet the export requirements, so Chile and Argentina banned their import in 2014. That year, authorities detected the cochineal pest in the fruit; a plague that they haven't been able to control to date.
The cochineal is a small white insect that measures two to six millimeters, so it