Agro-exports in Peru grew 50% in April: Fresh fruits conquer markets

Published 2021년 6월 14일

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In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peruvian agro-exports experienced a significant surge, with April exports reaching over $526 million, a 50% increase compared to the previous year, including products such as avocados, asparagus, and blueberries. Non-traditional exports, which accounted for 59% of the total, saw particular growth in fresh avocados, asparagus, and mangoes. From January to April, agricultural exports increased by 16.5% to $2,274 million, with the United States, Holland, and Spain being the main markets. This growth was led by increases in traditional exports like unroasted coffee and non-traditional exports like fruits and vegetables, particularly avocados, grapes, and blueberries.

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Despite the impacts of covid-19, agro-exports achieved an extraordinary rebound. Only in last April they grew by more than 50% adding 526 million dollars, compared to the 350 million registered during the same month last year, according to the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri). In that month, the growth figures were influenced by the greater placements of fresh avocados, fresh asparagus, other fruits, fresh mangoes, food preparations made from semolina flour, starch, starch or malt extract, fine carded or combed alpaca or llama hair, preserved asparagus, blueberries, other cocoa, artichokes and frozen mango, among others. For example, traditional agricultural exports reached 13 million dollars, an amount that represented an increase of 23% compared to 2020. In this group, sales of unroasted coffee stood out (8.2 million dollars), which registered an increase of 2.2%. Only this product accounted for 63% of traditional agricultural exports. Meanwhile, ...

Source: AgroForumPeru