Business opportunities with the arrival of Mexican vanilla to the Peruvian jungle

Published 2023년 11월 20일

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The PERU-Hub project, in collaboration with various organizations, has successfully brought natural Mexican vanilla stems to Peru, allowing local producers and entrepreneurs to diversify their crops. Currently, a thousand vanilla cuttings are being quarantined and monitored by specialists to ensure their adaptation and acclimatization. Vanilla is a highly valued spice in the global market, presenting a profitable export opportunity for Peruvian businessmen and entrepreneurs, and the project aims to promote sustainable and diversified production to benefit regional development.

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Thousands of Peruvian producers and entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to diversify their crops and venture for the first time into the production of one of the most consumed spices with the highest commercial value internationally: vanilla. This will be possible, thanks to the efforts of the PERU-Hub project that, after two years of negotiations, managed to bring natural Mexican vanilla stems to our country. PERU-Hub is an initiative of the National Agrarian University La Molina (UNALM) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in alliance with North American universities (Purdue, Oklahoma and Utah) and the international research center Bioversity- CIAT. This project seeks to establish a center of excellence, taking advantage of research for technology transfer and crop diversification. “In the San Martín region they are mainly dedicated to the cultivation of coffee, cocoa, corn and rice. We did a study to identify other products that were more ...

Source: AgroPeru