The new president of Fedefruta, Ramon Achurra Larrain, met with the Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Furche, and the Director of Odepa, Claudia Carbonell, at the offices of the Ministry of Agriculture to discuss the most important concepts of Fedefruta's 2016-2018 policies.
"It was a very cordial meeting, like all the meetings with the Minister of Agriculture Carlos Furche," stated Ramon Achurra, who was accompanied to the meeting by the vice president of Fedefruta, Jorge Valenzuela, directors Claudio Vergara and Cristián Allendes, and manager Juan Carlos Sepulveda.
During the meeting, "we discussed the issues that concern the fruit sector, such as the strengthening of plant protection, increasing productivity, and refinancing the category after a very difficult season due to the warm winter, wet spring and rains we had at harvest," said Ramon Achurra after his first meeting with Carlos Furche. "The meeting was very positive. We will continue meeting to try to solve all the problems of the fruit growing activity, which is as dynamic and rapidly changing as we have seen this year in particular. It has been a very difficult year for us because our production was much smaller than we expected due to climatic factors," he stated.,
After the meeting, the Minister of Agriculture said that "we discussed a specific agenda that we have been developing with Fedefruta for a long time, which basically involves productivity, labor relations, energy and water resources. We have agreed on some working processes." The Minister said they would seek to build "a productivity agenda based on what we have been doing, what other entities such as the CPC and Asoex have added, and with some points we picked up at our conversation with Fedefruta today."
The directors of Fedefruta, including its President, Ramon Achurra, are meetings with Corfo, to propose financing instruments for fruit growers affected by low productivity because of the climate, and with the National Agricultural Society to coordinate tasks in general.