Mexico overtakes Peru as UK's biggest asparagus supplier

Published 2024년 10월 10일

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In 2022, Peru reclaimed the title as the world's leading supplier of fresh asparagus, surpassing Mexico, which had held the position since the previous year. Mexico's focus has been to increase its market share in the UK, where it successfully exported more asparagus than Peru from May to June 2024, due to increased demand and challenges in Peruvian asparagus production. Despite these challenges, Peru continued to export a significant amount of asparagus to the UK, with the US, Spain, and the UK being its primary markets. Exports to the US saw a decrease, while those to Spain increased, and the value of exports to the UK rose due to higher average prices, despite a decrease in volume.

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Mexico maintained its position as the world's leading supplier of fresh asparagus until 2021. However, in 2022, Peru regained its lead after five years, pushing Mexico into second place, EastFruit reports. Since then, Mexico has focused on increasing its presence in markets that it also supplies Peruvian produce to, including the UK. Between May and June 2024, Mexico was able to export more asparagus to the UK than Peru, although shipments from Peru did not decrease significantly during this period. As FreshPlaza explains, this is due to increased demand for Mexican asparagus in the UK. In addition, Peruvian asparagus yields per hectare were 20% lower than last year due to difficulties that have been ongoing since 2023. Peru, which has had a difficult year, saw Mexico take advantage of its higher production and proximity to the United States to adapt to changes in international demand. Between January and August this year, Peru exported 49.5 tons of fresh asparagus to the UK, ...

Source: Eastfruit