Peruvian Capsicum Will Have Better Opportunities Abroad This Year

Peruvian chili peppers and peppers (capsicum) face 2025 with encouraging prospects, driven by factors such as agricultural difficulties in Mexico and oversupply in China, giving them the opportunity to strengthen their international position, provided they raise their safety and quality standards, stated Walter Seras Pacheco, president of the Capsicum Committee of the Exporters Association (ADEX). This was during his presentation at the launch of the II Capsicum Business Encounter, an event organized by ADEX to be held in Arequipa on July 10 and 11, which was attended by the guild's director, Liz Soto Luna; Agroexports manager, Claudia Solano Oré, and the director of Senasa's Agrifood Safety Subdirectorate, Pedro Molina Salcedo. "Exporters are capable of supplying international demand, but we must be prepared. We have already done so with Mexico's wide chili pepper, one of its emblematic peppers, which in 2024 faced production problems. After predicting and analyzing that ...