Peru: Producers in Ancash sell mangoes for the national market at S/ 0.28 per kilo

Published Mar 30, 2023

Tridge summary

The mango harvest in the Ancash region's Moro district and Nepeña valley has commenced, but producers are disappointed with the low prices paid by exporters, significantly less than last year. The average price for premium quality mangoes exported by air is S/ 1.8 per kilo, a quarter of the price from the previous year, and S/ 0.28 per kilo for mangoes for domestic consumption and pulp, a tenth of the previous year's price. Farmers and local economy are affected by the selective harvest and low prices, which put the 2024 campaign at risk. The executive director of SEDIR, Juan Cerna Espinoza, points out the inconsistency between the increasing annual export figures and the low prices paid to producers.

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(Agraria.pe) The mango harvest in the Moro district and the Nepeña valley, in the Ancash region, has started with disappointing prices for producers who hoped to increase or, at least, maintain the amounts that exporters paid in the harvest of 2022. The Service for Integral Development (Sedir) reported that buyers currently pay on average S/ 1.8 per kilo of mango that is exported by air (premium quality), when last year the amount reached S/ 3 While for the mango for national consumption and pulp the derisory figure of S/ 0.28 per kilo is paid, when last year it reached S/ 1. “Honestly, we don't understand why exporters pay us a very low price. I have relatives in Spain who tell me that the price of mangoes has not gone down, but here they pay us very little. I think that this is already a management that the companies themselves do,” remarks Juan Terán, a farmer from Moro, located in the Huarcós area, in the midst of a mango sale. Precisely, according to figures from Adex, Spain ...

Source: Agraria