Peruvian table grape exports down due to blockades

In the first four months (October-January) of the Peruvian table grape campaign, exports reached 432 million kilos, representing a reduction of .5 percent compared to the same period the previous campaign, Fernando Cilloniz Benavides, president of Inform@ccion told Agraria.The drop is due to blockades in January and is not crop related, he said.Grape shipments in the first four months of the 2022/2023 campaign were as follows: October 45,576,129 kilos (34,929,743 kilos in the same month of the previous campaign); November 104,568,260 kilos (96,931,428 kilos); December 159,595,929 kilos (162,827,223 kilos); January 122,303,540 kilos (137,598,037 kilos).“As can be seen in the months of October and November of this campaign, there was an increase in shipments (in the amount of 13 percent), but as a result of the blockades in December (one week) and January (the last two weeks) It prevented us from continuing to grow when we clearly should have,” said Cilloniz.Cillóniz said that when ...