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With the arrival of specialised fruit growing and modern training systems, you could say that you cannot get high-quality produce without rain-proof covers.
In fact, rain is a dangerous foe for small fruits (cherries, raspberries, currants, etc). Water inevitably causes the fruit to crack and therefore makes it unsellable.
Rain-proof covers must be kept open in orchards when the fruit begins to change colour (veraison) until the harvest is finished. During this time, rain-proof covers also help protect against hail.

Leaving the cover open for longer can lead to the following problems:
•  It creates a microclimate that is not completely suitable for the plants and can encourage swarms of red spider mites and eriophyid mites.
•  It reduces light and can therefore have a negative impact on the quality of the buds, while leading to overgrowth of vegetation and the death of less exposed parts of the branch and shoots.

This cover lets you leave the product on the plant until it is perfectly ripe, which produces fruit that looks, feels, smells and tastes great in an excellent size, with the following advantages:
•  Immediate benefits, with the increased size, picking and sorting costs are reduced (meaning that sellable or defective products do not have to be selected in the field, which is a very time-consuming task).
•  Medium-long term benefits, because an evenly ripe, healthy product is going to be more commercially popular.
•  Product shelf life (a healthy product can be stored for longer and therefore sold at more profitable times).