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Peru: Fruit and vegetable export grows in 2021 despite the covid, Filomena, and the volcano

Fruits
Vegetables
Peru
Published Dec 29, 2021

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The year began with the biggest snow squall in memory - named Filomena - which left central Spain incommunicado and made it impossible for trucks to travel by road for several days and even caused a break in the supply of fruits and vegetables. vegetables from many supermarket chains and hypermarkets. The president of the wholesale fruit and vegetable markets of Spain (Coemfe), Andrés Suárez, remembers it very well; In Mercamadrid, where he is a member of the Asomafrut board of directors, Filomena's "litmus test" was successfully passed and it was only closed for two days, so the fruit vendors were not lacking in gender. In his balance for 2021, Suárez pointed out that this exercise leaves the wholesale fruit and vegetable sector with a "bittersweet taste", because the prospect is that the year ends with 8% fewer sales than in "2020, a very good year", thanks to its impulse during confinement, although, yes, still above those of 2019. According to the latest Household Food ...
Source: PEefeagro
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