Citrus (ENG)

Citrus Production – Review

José Minetti & Co. develops the citric activity in the fields localized in Fronterita, in the Famaillá department, Tucumán Province.

The plantation plan for the period 2018-2023 will allow to increase the implanted surface in approximately 1,200 hectares, out of which 300 hectares are of immediate disposal and in the remaining hectares there are currently sugar cane crops and pine plantations that will be replaced for citrus.

Plantations

The current plantation is distributed in approximately 560 hectares, with an amount of 160,000 plants that belong mainly to the varieties: Limonera, Lisboa, Génova and Eureka, which have been implanted from the year 2012 to date.

The antiquity of the plantation is shown in the following chart:

Our Future Project
The hectares to be implanted in the period 2018-2023 will imply a growth in the citrus exploitation of approximately 1,200 hectares, reaching an implanted surface of 1,700 has.
The foreseen expansion plan is the following:

For 2018, it is expected that the plant nursery will provide with 20,000 plants and the rest will have to be acquired.
As from the year 2019, the plant nursery will provide withthe whole of the plants.
The expansion plan will be carried out in the hectares that the company has available for citrus exploitation.

The company has more than 2,000 hectares available for citrus in the zone of Pedemonte de Fronterita, but they are not currently included in this project.