Peru: ProCitrus seeks to recover citrus production and increase shipments in new campaign

게시됨 2024년 9월 16일

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Sergio Del Castillo, CEO of ProCitrus, discussed the 2023 citrus campaign in Peru, which is expected to see slight growth despite challenges like climate irregularities and operational issues. Peru aims to export 275,000 tons of citrus, recovering from a 5% drop last year, with the US and Europe as main markets and efforts to expand into Asia. In Japan, only mandarins are currently approved for import, with other citrus fruits awaiting approval. Japan has 80,000 hectares dedicated to citrus cultivation, but changes in agrarian law have made some citrus production unprofitable for export, leading to a shift towards local market production.

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In an interview with Frutas de Chile, Sergio Del Castillo, CEO of the entity, indicated that “at the end of the campaign we project to have a small growth driven by late mandarins, but also significantly by the Tahiti lime that has grown.” There are only a few weeks left until the end of the citrus campaign in Peru, a country that ranks as the fourth largest producer and exporter of these fruits in the southern hemisphere and which concentrates its production in areas such as Piura, Lima Ica, La Libertad and the Central Jungle. The 2023 campaign was marked by the climate that caused a drop in the production volumes of these fruits. Therefore, in the new season, explained Sergio Del Castillo, CEO of the Association of Citrus Producers of Peru (ProCitrus), they seek to grow 5% and export about 275,000 tons, and thus recover citrus production. In an interview with Frutas de Chile, Del Castillo analyzed the development of the current season, the climatic impacts that Peru has ...

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