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Nicaragua will be picking the first harvest of some 200,000 orange trees that were planted in 1997-1998 about 20 km southeast of San Carlos along the Rio San Juan. The project, Frutales del San Juan, is to be the basis of a new agroindustry for the country. The entire production of the project is to be shipped to Costa Rica for processing into orange-juice concentrate. The end point for the project is the US market.
This first harvest will produce about 600,000 boxes of oranges this year and will be worth about US$1.5 million. These 200,000 trees are the first to bear from among a half million planted so far. The plans are to plant a total of 1.5 million trees to reach a production of 3 million boxes. The fruit will be stockpiled at a new facility built for the purpose at the border and then will be shipped to the Costa Rican plant, 90 km south.
Once converted to concentrate at TicoFrut, the processor, the product will be refrigerated and sent to Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, on the Caribbean coast, where it will be sent aboard specialized ships to Tampa, Florida. From there it will mingle with juices from throughout the world to be pumped through the US market.
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