Peru: Lemon exports fall 27% in July and accumulate three months of negative results

Published 2023년 9월 20일

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Peruvian lemon exports have experienced a significant decline, with three consecutive months of negative results and a monthly drop of 22.4% from May to July this year. The drop in demand from key markets such as the United States, Chile, and the Netherlands, as well as extreme rains and high production costs, have contributed to the decline. To supply the domestic market, the solution would be to import lemons from countries like Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil, although the availability of these countries' supplies and their export capacity should be carefully evaluated.

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From Idexcam they point out that, given the drop in lemon production, a solution to supply the domestic market would be to import from countries such as Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil. Between May and July of this year, Peruvian exports of lemon accumulated three consecutive months of negative results, registering a monthly drop of 22.4%, reported the president of the Guild for the Protection of Crops (Protec) of the Chamber of Commerce of Lima (CCL), Rubén Carrasco, according to statistics from the CCL Foreign Trade Research and Development Institute (Idexcam). “In July alone, the value of lemon shipments, which includes the Tahiti and Sutil varieties, among others, totaled US$3,300,000, registering a 27% drop compared to the same month in 2022, while in volume the contraction was 23%,” he indicated. Carrasco explained that the negative performance of these exports was due to the drop in demand from main destination markets such as the United States, Chile and the Netherlands, ...

Source: PQS