Specialised in pears and apples

摘要

Ariel Elias Sabbag is Director of Emelka S.A. of General Roca in the Río Negro valley in Patagonia."70% of our production consists of pears. We are growers of conventional and organic fruit and we only export what we grow." Emelka is a family company and Ariel Elias represents the third generation. "Our most import customers are in the US and Brazil,followed by Russia", he continues. The pear and apple production - 100% certified GlobalCAP, which comes between March and June was 30% less than last year. "However", he says "quality and sizes were better in 2014." The harvest starts in January with Williams pears, and the last apple crop are Pink Lady and Granny Smith in March.