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Our
production is exported , mainly, to the USA, which receive
up to 70-75% of the country exporting product; after that,
European market imports us around 20% of the exported fruit.
The rest of the production, is sent to Mexico, Chile, New
Zealand and some others.
Because
of our geographic location, the harvest season starts around
mid of October and keeps until end of January or early February.
The
maximum top of production is reached during December. This
harvest season give us an advantage, because we do not compete
with some other big exporters, like Mexico, Brazil and India.
During time, the maturity of the plantation has allowed Ecuador
to increase the exporting volumes up to 7 million boxes (4
kg each) on the last campaign and is still increasing due
to the incorporation of plants into production and maturity
of them.
Our
country counts with 5 treatment and packing plants, which
provide the service to the national exporters and also export
by themselves to the different world markets.
All together have an installed capacity for Hot Water Treatment
of 800 Ton per day and a storage capacity or more than 400,000
exporting boxes, and provide work for approximately 1,500
people during the harvest season, working at around 70% of
the installed capacity.
One of this plants, we can proudly say, is one of the biggest
ones in South America.
Next
we detail a brief description of each one of the treatment
plants that we have mentioned previously:
Treatment Plants:
- AGRIPRODUCT
- BRESSON - Industrial
Santa Priscilla
- DUREXPORTA
- KORMAL
-
NATRADE
- TERELSA S.A.
Exporters:
- AGRISAMSA
- AGRIVICSA
- BLIX - St. Jude
Farms
- EXOFRUT - RAPALLO
- KORMAL
- PILOT
- PIVANO El Rosario
- REFIN
- RINUR
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