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First
of all, is the fact to use the southern hemisphere as a counterseason
production and in this way have the chance to grow two crops in one year.
The technical reasons which allows us to proceed with such possibility
are:
- Appropiate soil conditions
- Excelent Phytosanitary level, which taken individually,
are factors who promotes towards low risks of sanitary problems. If
in our case, there are all present in our country, implies an enhancement
towards very good conditions
- Chile is recognized for its high luminosity
- Availability of water for irrigation
- Temperatures between 9ºC (night) and 28ºC (day) during
the growing season
- Geograhical isolation (desert in the north, high Andes mountains
East, antartic ice south and Pacific ocean West).
- Internationally recognized work of our Ministry
of Agriculture authorities through officials from SAG.
- Good Technical & Infrastructure Level
- GMO production is not allowed for commercial purposes
and only permited for seed production.
- ANPROS (National Seed Producers Association),
has a GPS system which via Internet it is possible to check for the
seed fields of other companies and establish the corresponding isolations.
- Chile is recognized to certify accordingly with OECD
standards.
- Chile is a member of UPOV for the protection of
plant breeder’s rights
- There is a recognized political and economical stability.
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