Peru could start exporting Hass avocado to Malaysia in the next two months

Peruvian Hass avocado producers could make their first shipments to the Malaysian market in the next two months, confirmed the Hass Avocado Producers Association of Peru (ProHass). Juan Carlos Paredes, president of ProHass, explained that the environmental certification prepared by the National Agrarian Health Service (Senasa) to enter the Asian country will be ready before the end of the third quarter of the year. "Malaysia is in the hands of Senasa and the country's health authority, in the last stages. We believe that the health protocol should be completed in a couple of months, so that market would already be expedited," he told La República. The entry of the Peruvian Hass avocado into the Malaysian market was raised in 2019, a year after it entered the United States and the European Union. Since then, part of the negotiations between Peru and the Southeast Asian country have included visits by specialists to the cultivation centers, as well as the supervision of the national ...