Failing production, rising costs and ongoing challenges in some of Argen-tina's biggest markets scuppered hopes that the economic reforms ushered in by the new government of Mauricio Macri - now entering its second year - would jump-start the country's topfruit exports in 2016. In fact, exports from Rio Negro and Neuquen showed little change during the first half of 2016 compared with the year-earlier period, weighing in at 255,000 tonnes for pears and 70,000 tonnes for apples. This is some way behind the 510,000-tonne total for the first half of 2005, but at least marks a stabilisation of exports after years of successive falls.
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