The new firm, Consorcio Verifica, will provide updated information to producers, suppliers, investors and others about the quality of the farming environment, raw materials, practices and conditions.

The four principals are Samuel Santa Cruz, Ezequias Alliende, Juan Francisco Astaburuaga, and Adolfo Alvial.

As the executives told IntraFish, the lack of quality scientific and technical information is one of the factors most mentioned by experts and authorities as one of the weak points in the scope of the current disease crisis in the industry, which led to a drive to develop what they call a “fundamental support system for the new industry that is emerging in Chile.”

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