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Article: Chile: rising star of South American exporters. (agricultural exports)
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- Frozen Food Digest
- Article date:
- April 1, 1992
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Chile has emerged as the star of South American Agricultural exporters, according to economist John B. Parker, Jr., of USDA's Economic Research Service. Chile's agricultural exports, he notes, jumped from less than $400 million in 1980 to about $1.3 billion in 1990, a pace unsurpassed by any other South American nation.
Many factors boosted such spectacular growth, Parker notes, including overall economic policies that encouraged agricultural production, modernization of fruit marketing, and the Chilean's diligence in seeking export markets, report a recent issue of the Agriculture Department's FARMLINE magazine.
Chile leads South America as a fruit ...