Peru is the top 10 supplier of exotic fruits thanks to passion fruit, but the climate threatens its production

Shipments of this fruit totaled more than 66 million dollars, revealing an 11% growth in 2023, but this 2024 there was a decrease in its production. Peru is positioned thanks to the production of exotic fruits, especially passion fruit. In fact, thanks to passion fruit, we are in tenth place among suppliers in the world and third in Latin America. However, climatic factors affected production this year, although in 2023 shipments amounted to US$ 66 million 932 thousand, showing an increase of 11%. The manager of Agroexports of the Association of Exporters (ADEX), Claudia Solano Oré, explained that "it is worrying about its poor performance", since between January and May of this year it fell 9.8%. Even at the end of 2024 it could fall 6%. This is due to various factors – he continued – such as lower production due to climatic phenomena that delayed the floral peaks, the presence of new pests such as talula, diseases that were not previously found in passion fruit, among others. ...