The month of August will end with a major event on the other side of the Andes: Cherry Day, the most important meeting of the Argentine cherry industry, which will take place on August 28 and 29 in Neuquén.
The event will bring together producers, exporters, and agricultural service and product companies, who will take part in the two days of Cherry Day. The first day includes technical talks by Argentine and Chilean advisors, including Juan Pujó and Tomás Lochbaum, and compatriots Jordi Casas and Valeria Lepe.
The event will also feature presentations by Gert Eastes, Cherry Ridge South Africa, on cherry production in the African country, and Peter Cornish, CEO of Fruit Grower Tasmania – Australia.
The first day will end with the panel made up of members of the Argentine Chamber of Integrated Cherry Producers, entitled "The role of CAPCI; present and future of the Argentine cherry sector"; the final block will be led by Mariano Tappata, general manager of PAI SA, and
will feature the following panelists: Diego Aguilar, president of the Mendoza Chamber of Cherries;
Viviana Bircher, Vice President of the Chamber of Cherry Producers of the Lower Valley of the Rio Grande
Chubut; Hernan De Bellis, CER Extraberries SA; Jorge Seguel, President of the Cooperative
Agrofutícola El Oasis Ltda; and Juan Carlos Schroeder, president of PINCÉN SA and CEO of the
Schroeder Group.
«I have the pleasure and honour of inviting you tomorrow for Cherry Day, a very important day for all of us, and together we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of CAPCI. Starting tomorrow, the 28th, there will be a very interesting panel with international and local talks. Among the international talks, our friends from South Africa will be talking about early cherries, and our friends from Tasmania will be talking and showing what they are doing with late cherries. There will also be a panel of local producers talking and discussing what we are doing.» said Alejandro Zimmermann, President of CAPCI.
Field trip
During the day of August 29, attendees will be able to participate in an interesting field trip, which will end at noon and which will end Cherry Day 2024. During this event, the latest techniques and developments in cherry production will be presented, and there will be an opportunity for networking and outreach on what it means to produce cherries in Argentine Patagonia.
«We invite you to participate, where we will see new things and things that are being done in the field in the production area. It is an honor for us that you are here to celebrate this tenth anniversary of all the local producers and we would especially like to thank all the companies and sponsors who have made this event possible and who have been with us during these 10 years of CAPCI. So dear friends, we look forward to seeing you all together to celebrate.», Zimmermann concluded.
Tickets are still available and can be purchased at www.cherryday.org
