SOURCE: El Tiempo TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The low temperatures will affect the 2022-2023 campaign’s mango production. The cold is causing the fruit to detach from the trees affecting more than 30,000 hectares of mango in the San Lorenzo valley. This year there has been a favorable mass flowering thanks to theContinue Reading
SOURCE: Agraria.pe TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The 700 new hectares of mango plantations that three large companies in the sector installed a few years ago in the Olmos Valley (Lambayeque) will enter production in the 2022/2023 campaign. After Piura, Lambayeque is Peru’s second-largest mango production area. Lambayeque positioned itself as the third-largestContinue Reading
SOURCE: Fresh Fruit TRANSLATION: Freshplaza According to a report by FreshFruit, Peruvian organic banana exports contracted by 20% in the first quarter of the year over the same period of 2021, totaling 46,550 tons worth 32.6 million dollars. The average price of the fruit remained at 0.70 dollars per kilo,Continue Reading
SOURCE: Agraria.pe TRANSLATION: Freshplaza The president of the Association of Hass Avocado Producers of Peru (ProHass), Juan Carlos Paredes Rosales, said Peru would export 515,000 tons of Hass avocado this year, i.e. 6.6% more than in 2021. Paredes Rosales highlighted that Europe is the main market for Peru’s Hass avocado,Continue Reading
SOURCE: John Hey, Fruitnet Chile most of Korea’s fresh fruit import categories saw a decline in volumes during 2020 amid the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, avocados bucked the trend, increasing by 61 per cent year-on-year to top 13,000 tonnes. The rapid growth has continued in 2021, fuelled by aContinue Reading
Peru exported 410,463,231 kilos of avocado in 2020, almost 100 million kilos more than the 310,870,326 kilos it exported in 2019, according to data published by Agrodata Peru.Continue Reading
Original source: Agraria.pe Avocado producers from Casma in the Ancash region are very concerned about the stoppage of mango and avocado exports to China due to the health crisis that the coronavirus has caused in the country. The president of the Farmers Association from Casma, Rafael Santolalla Coral, stated thatContinue Reading
Europe is the main export destination, with 70% of shipments. According to a report from the Chamber of Commerce of Lima (IDEXCAM-CCL), organic banana exports could increase by up to 5% this year over the previous year, reporting some 175 million dollars. In the last two years, exports have experiencedContinue Reading
Rambutan is starting to gain prominence in Europe’s fruit markets and it has had a great reception among Asian consumers who are on living the continent, as well as in specialty stores. According to the market intelligence platform of the Center for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries,Continue Reading
According to estimates, in the 2018/2019 campaign, Peru will export 180 thousand tons of fresh mango, i.e. 13% less than the record 207 thousand tons it dispatched in the previous season. This was stated by the president of the Peruvian Association of Producers of Mango (ProMango), Angel Gamarra Condori,Continue Reading
Pitahaya and rambutan are two exotic fruits that are a sensation in the province of Chanchamayo, in the region of Junin, and that are currently being produced for export purposes; to date, producers have planted some 250 hectares of these new alternative fruits. These productions have high levelsContinue Reading
Peru’s avocado exports soared in both volume and value during the 2017 season, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (Minagri). The entity said export volumes rose 27% year-on-year to 247,000 metric tons (MT), with the value soaring 46% to US$580 million. According to International Trade CenterContinue Reading