The aim of this work is to detect, compile and systematize those historical elements of the Chilean industrialization process that allow us to shape the development and chronology of the agri-food industry and agro-industry based on fruit and vegetables up to 1930. A related contribution is the generation of a register of such firms that were founded before the 1929 crisis, many of which remained in time by the thrust of European immigrants who arrived to the country. There are foundations and evidence to conclude that in the decades of 1840-1850 the agri-food industry became an economic activity clearly visible, particularly the production of flour, noodles, cooking oil and biscuits. By the other hand, dried fruits go back to the Colonial era, with exports at the end of the eighteenth and during the nineteenth century. Food preservation via warming and brining emerged early in Chile, but fruit and vegetables in tin cannery of industrial scale arises only at the beginning of the twentieth century. Concentrated fruit juices and vegetables are a modern phenomenon, but some initiatives to produce natural juices are also at the start of this century. The agro-industry based on fruit and vegetables was born and developed at the shadow of the agri-food industry and its technological advances, shaping an import-substituting industry which achieved an important exporter takeoff in the 1980s.