News Briefs Heat, Fruit Fly Hamper Harvests in Peru and Northern Chile

 

Unseasonably warm weather has resulted in an unprecedented fruit fly infestation and lowered an already poor harvest outlook in northern Chile and southern Peru. “The Mediterranean fruit fly plague is causing havoc in the north of Chile and the south of Peru,” said Máximo Karl Paniagua, director of the Azapa Valley Olive Growers Association in northern Chile.

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