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We are pleased to invite you to Concepcion, Chile for Frutic Chile 2009, the 8th edition of the Information and Technology Syposium for Sustainable Fruit and Vegetable Production.

Today’s international markets continually demand higher quality standards. Therefore, countries that export fruits, wines, and vegetables must realize the need to meet consumer demands and particularly supply their needs each day with information about the product data, especially produce origin, quality, and health. However, in the majority of cases in the agricultural world, they don’t count on the necessary tools to address this problem. Even worse, they haven’t taken notice of these needs and their implications in the short term. Additionally, international competitiveness, which gradually decreases the market objective, is creating the need in fruit and vegetable production to introduce a modernization process aiming to improve the yield efficiency and management of enterprises, such as technological tools, which have allowed the development of the knowledge of spatial and temporal variances that increase the development of quality, profitability, and environmental friendliness. However, we should continue to advance according to the demand of the globalization process with which we’re living today. Therefore, we suggest four important challenges according to the development of innovations associated with the scientific enterprise world dedicated to the production of fruit and vegetable as outlined below: