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Contingencies and restrictions (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Disclosure of contingent liability [Abstract] |
Disclosure of detailed information about financial indicators [Text Block] | As of December 31, 2020, the above-mentioned financial indicator has the following values:
Indicator |  | As of December 31, 2020 |  |  | As of December 31, 2019 |
Leverage |  |  | 0.50 |  |  |  | 0.32 |
Disclosure of detailed information about grantor obligations [Text Block] |
Grantor |  | Relationship |  | As of December 31, 2020 |  |  | As of December 31, 2019 |
|  |  |  | ThUS$ |  |  | ThUS$ |
Ferosor Agrícola S.A. |  | Unrelated Third party |  |  | 5,626 |  |  |  | 5,372 |
Tattersall Agroinsumos S.A. |  | Unrelated Third party |  |  | 2,000 |  |  |  | 2,000 |
Covepa SPA |  | Unrelated Third party |  |  | 703 |  |  |  | 671 |
Johannes Epple Davanzo |  | Unrelated Third party |  |  | 314 |  |  |  | 300 |
Hortofrutícola La Serena |  | Unrelated Third party |  |  | 303 |  |  |  | 282 |
Com. Serv Johannes Epple Davanz |  | Unrelated Third party |  |  | 408 |  |  |  | 269 |
Juan Luis Gaete Chesta |  | Unrelated Third party |  |  | 190 |  |  |  | 182 |
Arena Fertilizantes y Semillas |  | Unrelated Third party |  |  | 211 |  |  |  | 201 |
Vicente Oyarce Castro |  | Unrelated Third party |  |  | 229 |  |  |  | 213 |
Bernardo Guzmán Schmidt |  | Unrelated Third party |  |  | 130 |  |  |  | 121 |
Total |  |  |  |  | 10,114 |  |  |  | 9,611 |

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