Hail and rain damaged and made our fruits sick. The economic recession left the products without buyers and seriously affected the final price for the producer. In the economic aspect, prediction is more difficult, we just have to wait for the country to start developing again, for recession to give way to development for the welfare of our activity.
Home market is still more important for our producers.
We have to say that when exports grew more than the double, there were also problems-which could be solved, as regards packaging cooling and the sanity of the grapes due to heavy rain. We hope that this situation changes and stabilises. This enormous rate shows the great problems of our provincial viticulture industry, where a few wine cellars produce the local great part of choice wine. Many choice grape producers prefer to commercialise them in Mendoza where they surely obtain a higher final price, no matter the increase in the cost of transport and the quality loss as a consequence of non-traditional rains in this season. The low added value in these sending seriously affects the employment of workmen and the general economic movement in our province, which nowadays we need to develop considering the great recession we are going through.