Peru: The fresh pomegranate begins 2024 with a promising outlook

Fresh Pomegranate

Fruits

Peru

Market & Price Trends

Published Feb 4, 2024

Tridge summary

Peru has seen a significant increase in fresh pomegranate exports in the first four weeks of 2024, with nearly 2,000 tons exported, more than four times the amount in the same period in 2023. The Netherlands is the primary recipient of these exports. Despite the increase, there have been no shipments to Japan. The number of Peruvian agro-exporters has also more than doubled, with 26 registered in 2024 compared to 12 in the previous year.

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Original content

During the first four weeks of the year, fresh pomegranate shipments have exceeded expectations and are off to a good start. In this period, exports of the product easily managed to exceed 1,000 tons, and even almost reached 2,000 (1,798 tons), which was more than quadruple than in 2023, in which only 419 tons were registered. Last week alone, shipments totaled 955 tons, more than eight times what was exported in the same week last year. So far in 2024, the Peruvian pomegranate has already reached seven destinations, joining the United Kingdom and Canada in this period; However, there have still been no shipments to Japan, which already registered purchases of the fruit at the beginning of last year. For its part, in these four weeks of the year, the leading destinations were the Netherlands, with 88% participation (1,589 tons); that is, almost five times more than 2023; followed by Germany, with 5% (86 tons), multiplying its acquisitions more than four times; and the United ...

Source: Freshfruit.pe