The 2022-2023 table grape campaign in Peru starts off on the right foot

(Agraria.pe) The 2022/2023 table grape campaign started successfully, said the president of the consulting firm Inform@cción, Fernando Cillóniz Benavides. He pointed out that, in October of this year, the first month of the campaign, table grape shipments reached 45,293,546 kilos, showing an increase of 29.67% compared to the 34,929,742 kilos dispatched in October 2021. "A vertiginous start can be seen in this campaign, where the Piurana grape (which is the main actor in these months due to the fact that the supply from Ica begins in December) has exploded," he said. Cillóniz highlighted that table grapes are Peru's main agricultural export crop. He added that in the previous campaign (2021/2022) Peru was the main world exporter of table grapes in terms of value, and in the current campaign (2022/2023) our country will be the main exporter of this product globally in volume. , surpassing Chile, which enjoyed this position for many ...