Chinese market's fondness for shelled pecans can be exploited by Peru for its exports

(Agraria.pe) As part of the achievements obtained during the APEC meeting, held in our country in November, the Government highlighted the agreement for the export to China of pecans, chestnuts and frozen fruits. Of that group, the pecan is a traditional food linked to the Ica region and the potential it can have to be marketed in the Asian market is enormous, according to statements by Eduardo Ojeda Dávila, president of the Ica Chamber of Commerce. And it is that in China it is customary to consume pecans with the shell, unlike other countries, where the product has to be sent peeled. “China consumes it with the shell and is the first consumer in the world, there are more than 1,700 million Chinese and everything that Peru produces is little for the population they have,” he said in statements to the media “A Noticias”. Ojeda said that part of this custom in Chinese comes from the appreciation they have for old trees. In the case of pecans, he explained, they put the product ...