HISTORY
Family business, 3rd generation
At the end of the Second World War, Chile developed variouss industries, including agriculture. José Valdés Fernández dought miles south of santiago the city of Rancagua. He converted grass and rice gields to whent production. His son, Carlos, later planted fruit trees spurring an agro-industrial turnaround.
AGRICOLA HUILMAY
In 1983, Carlos Valdés Concha transformed the Santa Amelia farm into one specializing in fruit trees. In the beginning it was pear, peache and plum. Today it is cherry wainly for export to china. The varieties that stand out are Santina and Lapins. Our goal is to obber cherries for ten million people every year.
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TRADITION / COUNTRY
/ HISTORY
When the Spaniards arrived in the central valley of Chile in the 16th century, they immediately realized how fertile the land was and decided to settle there. From that moment, the union between its people and agriculture begins in Chile.
In one of the most fertile valleys it belonged to the Jesuit order. This valley is now considered Graneros and part of Rancagua.
The Valdés family arrived in Chile at the beginning of the 17th century and one of it's interests was agriculture. Is José Valdés Fernández settled in the old lands of the Jesuits and developecl new crops for that area old rice crops transformet into modern wheat crops.