Peru's ginger supply decreases due to 60% less planting

(Agraria.pe) Ginger supply in Peru remains limited despite good demand in its key markets of Europe, the United States and Canada. Leandro Manuel Llacctarimay Figueroa, head of sales and operations at Agroexportaciones Llacta, indicates that "supply in Peru is limited at this time because planting in 2022 was 60% lower compared to 2021, after farmers lost their capital. work due to the low prices that occurred in 2020 and 2021. Llacctarimay says that since the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, ginger prices were very good, prompting many people in Peru to enter the sector. "The population that works in other sectors such as hotels, liquor stores, construction, coffee growers, pineapple growers, cassava and others, invested in planting ginger thinking that it would cost the same as during the pandemic. However, it was quite the opposite, since others producing countries planted more ginger, such as Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Brazil and China." He explains that other existing producers ...