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The I Love Produce team spent the last week inspecting the new crop garlic coming into the harvest season in Mendoza, Argentina and got a dose of the World Cup and soccer culture to boot.

The Argentine lemon campaign will have a good production this year, with an expected harvest between 1.8-2 million tons in the domestic and export market combined

With the export season yet to be completed, Argentina has already doubled its fresh lemon exports to the U.S.

As the first shipments of blueberries are already leaving the country to non-traditional markets such as Israel and Indonesia, the Argentinean Blueberry Committee says growers are promoting its top attributes: tasty, sustainable, and responsible.

According to Senasa, during the first four months of 2021, the Rio Negro region exported 24,071 tons of apples, reflecting a 30 percent decrease when compared to the same period of last year and the lowest export volume of region’s history, as reported by Rio Negro.

Argentine pear and apple exports totaled 134,442 tons in the first quarter of 2021, 15 percent less than the same period the previous year.

The global pandemic couldn’t slow down Argentina’s fruit export growth.

Argentina, one of the largest exporters of pears and lemons in the world, has exported nearly 800,000 tons of fresh fruit in the first 10 months of this year.