Trade disagreement between the United States and China opens a great opportunity for Peruvian agro-exports

(Agraria.pe) In the last 18 years world food exports have grown in the order of 8% annually, however, between the period 2001 and 2019 Peruvian food exports have increased by 16% a year on average, going from US $ 421 million in 2001 to US $ 6,219 million in 2019. This was highlighted by former Minister of Production, Alfonso Velásquez Tuesta, who indicated that 2019 was a difficult year for Peruvian exports in general, having decreased by 3% , but agro-industrial exports maintained their growth at 10% despite the national decrease. "This year with Covid-19 things have been very hard, we have had a decrease of 23% of total exports in the first quarter, however, our agriculture remains. From January to April, agro-exports have grown 4%, this due to the prompt government measures that allowed all the industries related to the food issue to maintain their flow of operations, both internal and external supply, "he said. He noted that the previous year Peruvian agro-exports reached 146 ...