Ditzler uses five machines to harvest sweet dark cherries for processing into yogurts and ice creams. Cherries are harvested day and night. A Swiss company that produces frozen fruits for yogurts and ice creams is growing some of its cherries in Chile. Arturo Garcia, general manager of an orchard at Morza, Chile, owned by Ditzler, said cherries are an important part of the company’s business, but production in Switzerland is small-scale and expensive, so it looked to expand elsewhere. The 100-hectare (250-acre) orchard in Chile was established between 1992 and 2003. The main variety is a sweet, black, processing cherry […]