Agri-food, fisheries and forestry exports continued to rise in 2019, reaching € 53,180M

Exports from the agri-food sector reached a value of 53,180 million euros in 2019, with an increase of 5.2% compared to 2018, according to the 2019 Annual Foreign Trade Report of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA), which offers a detailed and updated analysis of the main magnitudes and indicators that allow to know in depth the current situation of foreign trade in the agri-food, fishing and forestry sector. Imports reached 38,964 million euros, 1.2% more than the previous year. In this way, the balance stood at 14,215 million, with an increase of 18.2% compared to 2018. The report, which is structured in three blocks, studies, in the first of them, the main figures of foreign trade in its set; In this, the contribution of the agri-food, fishing and forestry sector stands out, which accounted for 18.3% of the exports of the national economy as a whole. The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has valued these figures and has highlighted the ...