Peruvian exports of fresh ginger grow in volume 48.5% in the first four months of the 2023/2024 campaign

(Agraria.pe) In the first four months of the 2023/2024 campaign (which begins in May and ends in April), Peruvian exports of ginger reached 18,198,316 kilos, showing an increase of +48.5% compared to 12,257 .725 kilos shipped in the same period of the previous campaign (2022/2023). This was indicated by the president of the consulting firm Inform@cción, Fernando Cillóniz Benavides, who pointed out that ginger is a very important Amazonian crop, which has been growing in recent years and will continue to grow, even in relative terms, more than in previous years. . He added that Peruvian shipments of this product already exceed US$ 100 million per campaign, positioning itself behind coffee, cocoa and oil palm as the main crops in the Peruvian Amazon. He explained that in the first four months of the current campaign, ginger shipments from Peru behaved as follows: May, 3,334,751 kilos (1,780,065 kilos in May of the last campaign); June, 3,438,492 kilos (2,543,531 kilos in June of ...