“I think now there’s a stage where everybody is getting a little bit nervous…it used to be easy to have growth in berries but now quality is changing. In the whole value chain you have to be a little bit ahead of anybody else to maintain your growth.”

“We are improving our airports and, thanks to the work undertaken at the airport of Tucuman, blueberry exports grew by 58 percent,” said President Mauricio Macri in his message to the Legislature.

The season ended with many goals fulfilled and waiting for a 2017 full of great challenges.

On 29 December 2016, following a request from the Argentinian Union of Rural Workers and Stevedores (UATRE), the National Agricultural Work Commission (CNTA) set a minimum of 25 kilos harvested per wage as part of the working conditions for blueberry harvesters.

A total of 112 TN arrived by air and sea to different markets on week 52.