Arturo Medina: I hope one day Peru consumes the amount of avocado that Chile consumes, it would be spectacular

(Agraria.pe) In July 2023, the Peruvian Hass Avocado Producers Association (ProHass) made an adjustment to its forecast for Hass avocado production in this campaign, placing it at 598,344 tons, after estimating shipments of more than 630,000 tons in March. However, with information up to week 37, the general manager of said union, Arturo Medina, declared that the growth is zero. During the workshop "Challenges and Challenges of the Peruvian Hass Avocado", David Sandoval, CEO of Fluctuante, the organizing company of the event, stated that the global trade in avocado (considering all the countries that have participated in the shipment of this product) reached the US $7,350 million in 2022. In the case of Peru, he said that in 2003 it exported US$15 million avocado and at the end of 2022 it exported more than US$900 million. He noted that Peru is the third world exporter of said fruit. According to Senasa data, as of November 2022, Peru has 60,132 hectares of Hass avocados, of which ...