Peruvian mango exports plummet in the 2023-2024 season

Published 2024년 4월 3일

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Peru's mango exports have seen a dramatic decline in the 2023-2024 campaign, with shipments dropping to 75,167 tons by week 10, a 66.9% decrease from the previous year, primarily due to adverse climatic conditions such as heavy rainfall from Cyclone Yaku and high temperatures from the Coastal Niño and Global Niño phenomena. This decline has significantly impacted the Kent variety, which makes up over 90% of exports, primarily to the U.S. and the Netherlands. The reduced mango output has led to a substantial decrease in employment, affecting approximately 70% of the workforce in the sector, translating to around 70,000 families or 210,000 people facing unemployment. This situation is further aggravated by the reduced operational capacity of industrial plants, many of which have not reopened or are operating at only 20% capacity, posing a major economic and social challenge in both the agricultural and industrial sectors.

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From the beginning of the 2023-2024 campaign until the end of week 10, Peru exported 75,167 tons of fresh mango, which represented a drop of 66.9 percent compared to the 226,907 tons shipped in the same period of the previous campaign, as reported by Agraria, citing the president of the Peruvian Association of Mango Producers and Exporters (APEM), Carlos Iván Vílchez Peralta,Vílchez Peralta explained that this drop in shipments is due to the low production generated by the climatic phenomena that affected the crop.“The heavy rainfall in April and May 2023 due to Cyclone Yaku caused the land, especially the retentive ones, to have a lot of humidity, also affecting the infrastructure of irrigation canals, roads, unfavorable conditions for the farmer to work the field once,” he said. “Once the 2022-2023 campaign ended, that had an impact on the field, the land, and the plants.”Added to this was the high temperatures recorded due to the presence of the Coastal Niño and Global Niño, ...

Source: Producebluebook