It is not just Brazil, in Latin America, that is managing to expand its agricultural exports even in times of pandemic. Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia and Guatemala are part of the group of countries in the region that have achieved good results on this front. Peru and Uruguay, on the other hand, are facing problems.
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A recently completed survey by Joaquín Arias, international technical specialist at the Center for Strategic Analysis for Agriculture (Caespa) of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), based in San José (Costa Rica), shows that, together of 14 Latin American countries with available data, agricultural exports grew 8.5% (US $ 1.7 billion) in April compared to the same month of 2019, and totaled US $ 21.2 billion, or 22.3% of a global total based on results from 75 countries. In total, including the other sectors of the economy, the group's exports - Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay - registered a fall of almost 30 % in comparison. In May, the trend was maintained, although the universe analyzed is smaller, since Bolivia, Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia did not yet have data available for compilation. According to the sum of the numbers of the other ten ...
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