The first all-organic packing house in Chile

摘要

With a decent export growth of 20% and the opening of the first completely "organic packing house", Greenvic from Las Condes/Santiago has emphatically positioned itself in the organic market The company cooperated in the elaboration of the organic directive in Chile. For Jorge Salazar, director of organic production for Greenvic, this autonomous legislation is an ideal way of independently producing organically in Chile without having to employ certification organizations from other countries. Greenvic is determined to develop this sector and has built one of the most modern packing houses in Chile for the purpose. It is located in the central valley of Chile, in the region of San Fernando to the south of Santiago. Greenvic, founded in 1986, has hadtwelve years of experience marketing organic fruit in the southern states of the USA and in the region of Vancouver in Canada. Greenvic hopes the new packing house will allow it to export 450,000 boxes of organic apples in the 2006-07 season. In the medium term, the director explains, the company will reach a figure of one million boxes. "This is also helped along by the fact that we enlarge our growing surface by 80 to 100 ha each year."