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The Peruvian Foreign Trade Society (ComexPeru) is promoting raspberries as the next big thing in Peruvian agricultural exports, following in the footsteps of blueberries. Despite limited export experience, the U.S., Peru's primary agro-export partner, has shown growing interest, importing raspberries worth $1.36 million in 2019, a 20% increase from the year before. However, Peruvian exporters face competition from Mexico, the dominant supplier of raspberries to the U.S. Other potential export crops include passion fruit, golden berries, dragon fruit, and turmeric, but obtaining U.S. health authorizations is a necessity. Currently, these crops are only exported as samples, with passionfruit being the only one significantly exported to countries like Canada, Spain, The Netherlands, France, and Italy.
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Raspberries could be the new fruit with the highest export potential among Peruvian products, according to the Peruvian Foreign Trade Society (ComexPeru) The organization said that despite Peruvian raspberries having only been sent out in small samples to different countries, this situation could change if the product entered the U.S., Peru’s main partner in the agro-export sector. ComexPeru stated that Peruvian raspberries could follow the same route as blueberries, one of the country's flagship product. “Also, the entry of the Peruvian raspberries into the U.S. would cause interest in investing in this crop to rise exponentially among the Peruvian agroindustry,” said Rafael Zacnich, manager of economic studies at ComexPeru. In 2019, the U.S. imported raspberries for a total of $1.36 million, an almost 20 percent increase from the previous year. This evolution is constant from the year 2017 and is expected to continue, something that is very beneficial for Peruvian raspberries as ...
Source: Fresh Fruit Portal
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