Bolivia registers record peanut export in six months

By Redacción PortalPortuario.cl / Agencia Prensa Latina, @PortalPortuario, Bolivia registered a record peanut export of eight thousand tons for a total value of 7.6 million dollars until June of this year, an official source reported. The increase in the first six months of 2021 was 27% in value and 19% in volume, in relation to the same stage of 2020, highlighted the Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and Integration, Benjamín Blanco., The exported peanuts are produced in Santa Cruz (95%), Cochabamba and Chuquisaca, while the main market is the Andean Community (84%), followed by the European Union (9%), added the official. This Andean-Amazonian nation appears in 19th place among the suppliers of the product in the world, whose marketable figure is around 3.6 billion tolerated. According to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE), Bolivia produces 20,486 tons of peanuts per year, with an average yield of 1,442 kilograms per hectare. In the agricultural areas of the Chaco ...