Peru is in the top 10 global suppliers of passion fruit and exotic fruits

In 2023, shipments of passion fruit to the world amounted to US$ 66 million 932 thousand, showing an increase of 11% compared to 2022. Thanks to the high quality of Peruvian passion fruit and other exotic fruits, in 2023 Peru ranked No. 10 as a global supplier of these products and No. 3 in Latin America and the Caribbean, reported the manager of Agroexports of the Association of Exporters (ADEX), Claudia Solano Oré. During her presentation 'Passionflowers in the international market: Opportunities and Challenges', within the framework of the II International Congress of Passionflowers of Peru - organized by ADEX and the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA) - she indicated that passion fruit was the most popular exotic fruit abroad. “Last year, our shipments to the world amounted to US$ 66 million 932 thousand, showing an increase of 11% compared to 2022 (US$ 60 million 473 thousand); however, its poor performance between January and May of this year (-9.8%) is ...