Agro-exports of Peru reach US $4,982 million in the first eight months of the year, showing a growth of 17%

Published 2021년 10월 12일

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Peru's agricultural exports, including both traditional and non-traditional products, saw a significant increase of 17% in the first eight months of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020, totaling US $ 4,982 million. Non-traditional products contributed 95% of this total. The period saw growth in the export of various products such as fresh avocado, grapes, semolina flour preparations, blueberries, asparagus, animal feed, alpaca hair, and other fruits. Traditional exports, mainly unroasted coffee and sugars, accounted for 5% of the total. The United States, the Netherlands, and Spain were the main importers. The agricultural trade balance showed a surplus of US $ 952 million.

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(Agraria.pe) Peruvian agro-exports totaled US $ 4,982 million between January and August of this year, experienced a growth of 17% compared to the same period in 2020, reported the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri). The products with the greatest contribution to growth in the first eight months of the year were: fresh avocado (+ 43%), fresh grapes (+ 12%), other food preparations of semolina flour, starch, starch or malt extract (+ 3573% ), blueberries (+ 20%), fresh asparagus (+ 15%), preparations used to feed animals (+ 24%), carded or combed fine hair of alpaca or llama (+ 96%), other fruits (+ 28%), tara powder (+ 92%) and tara seed mucilage (+ 172%), among others. Of the value exported between January-August, agro-exports of non-traditional products accounted for 95%, while the remaining 5% corresponded to traditional ones. In terms of traditional agricultural exports during the first eight months of the year they reached US $ 259 million FOB, ...

Source: Agraria