Past, present and future of the Peruvian avocado

Published 2024년 10월 30일

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Peru is the world's second-largest avocado exporter, with challenges such as climatic conditions affecting the fruit's quality and size. Fluctuante, in response, held a webinar to analyze the past, present, and future of Peruvian avocado production. Alonso Puga, the general manager of Proserla, discussed the impacts of high temperatures and rain on avocado production and the need for soil care and potential plant cover use to maintain healthy roots. The industry also faces the challenge of cadmium in avocados, with the requirement being no closer to 0.5% for export to Europe. The majority of avocado distribution in Peru is in La Libertad, Lima, Ica, and Lambayeque, and there has been a decline in shipments, especially to the United States and Europe.

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Peru has become the second largest avocado exporter in the world. Despite being in a prominent position, the challenges facing the sector are in the whirlwind of change, whether due to climatic conditions that have altered the quality, condition and caliber of the fruit. Due to the importance of the sector, Fluctuante developed a webinar dedicated to the fruit, an instance in which the sector was analyzed with a look at the past, present and future of Peruvian avocado production. In this context, the general manager of Proserla, Alonso Puga, commented on his experience, the challenges he has faced and the trends of the 2024 campaign. He explained that the company owns 250 hectares of table grapes, 180 of avocados and 75 of Tahiti limes. In the case of avocados, many of the hectares arose from the reconversion of mango plantations. Puga recalled that 2023 was an atypical year, hit mainly since March with the appearance of the Cyclone Yaku phenomenon, which generated rain and ...

Source: MXfruit