On Monday, September 21st, Concordia suffered a strong storm, with lots of water and some hail events, which affected to a greater or lesser extent various areas of the place.

It is hard to know with certainty how affected the region’s offer will be, since every affected producer is assessing the consequences of the event.

Preliminarily, and according to the data collected from partners and technicians of APAMA, it is estimated that after this weather event, the offer from Argentina could be reduced by around 12%, which would represent a total exportable amount of 16,000 tons for 2015, compared to the 16,500 tons of the 2014 season.-

APAMA’s technical group is working on a new production forecast; however, the region will have an exportable volume of about 6,500 tons.

Thanks to the variety turnover that has been taking place in the area, various plots affected by the hail corresponded to very early varieties, such as for instance Snowchaser, which had been in harvest since week 35 and whose production peak has already passed.