Peru: Turkey sales abroad registered more than 10 million soles

Turkey, the traditional star of Christmas dinners, registered foreign sales of US$ 2,730,000 between January and October 2024 (in soles, just over S/10 million), which represented a growth of 38.2% compared to the same period last year (US$ 1,975,000), reported the Agro-Exports Department of the Association of Exporters (ADEX). Ecuador led the ranking of destinations for this product (90.3% share) with a demand of US$ 2,469,000 and an increase of 25.2% compared to 2023 (US$ 1,973,000 between January and October), according to figures from the ADEX Data Trade Commercial Intelligence System. The neighboring northern country has an annual per capita consumption of turkey meat of 1.07 kg, and in recent years it has promoted its poultry industry, now producing turkey genetics for fattening, which led it to reduce its imports from some of its suppliers. The second destination was Bolivia (US$ 200,000) which resumed its orders, after not having imported it in 2023. In third position was ...