The blueberries exports growth in volume for season 2007/2008 will surpass 40% comparing  with 2006/07. Handle these big volumes will become  a tremendous   challenge for all the commercial chain. If we considered that  in Chile there are almost  11.000 ha. (27.170 acres)and 1/3  still  is not in production yet , the volumes rates  will continue growing . On the other hand the human`s labour  increasing  price  and shortage of them   will carry the farmers to analyse the best chance to produce the fruit even fresh market ,even processed or better a right mix according each local reality. Finnaly the blueberry will be a good business in a normality compared with the exaggerated historical returns.

Considering what it is appropriated, it is that a group of professionals with vaste experience in harvest mechanization of berries makes available of the users the tools so that the producers make guessed right decisions, always maintaining the premise that the best business will continue being the one of the fresh market.

In this page they will find so much (Updated Market Information) like answers to all the restlessness that are generated to them when wanting to establish an mecanizated blueberry filed  or to adapt the present one to a chance  of implementing to future mechanized harvesting. So far Chile is a model to follow in the Southern hemisphere.

The next years projections  indicate a production in Chile of 38.000 tons, for 2007/08, 53.000, 74.000 and 100.000 tons of blueberries  for  2008/2009, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 seasons. The mechanical  harvesting  is without a doubt an important alternative for the future of the blueberry  in Chile, allowing the sustainability of the sector, when diminishing the farmer`s production costs , thus improving its yield, is possible to emphasize in addition, the important paper that must play blueberry industry for the success of the project.

The national Food Processing industry who growths  annualy 11% (double than the country growing rates), much fruit goes to  process cames from the fresh business rejected  product, but every time  specific varieties to the industry take more terrain , blueberry will not be the exception.