Category: International

The Office of Agricultural Studies and Policies (Odepa) released a bulletin stating that Chilean vegetable exports reached $331.2 million FOB between January and July 2022, reflecting an increase of 8.5 percent when compared to the same period the previous year.

With six weeks left to finish the 2022 exports campaign, Peruvian Hass avocado shipments have grown by 8 percent when compared to the previous season, according to Andina.

While there has been no constant rain in the rural sector of Central Mexico, the rainfall that has fallen has been intense and damaging enough to end strawberry production in storm zones, the regional leader of the National Peasant Confederation (CNC) of Guanajuato, Cuauhtémoc Prado Nava, told El Sol de Salamanca.

For the first time, grape shipments from the southern hemisphere exceeded 1.5 million tons in the 2021/22 season.

From January to May 2022, Peruvian blueberry exports totaled $135 million, reflecting an increase of 114 percent compared to the $62.9 million reached in the same period last year, reported Agraria, using figures from the Foreign Trade Society of Peru (Come Peru).

While still a small industry, Peruvian pineapples are growing quickly.

With an unfavorable climate in the first half of the year, Brazilian fruit cultivation registered a reduction of 11 percent in value and volume in fruit exports.

Almost 50 percent of the Hass avocado hectares in Peru are at risk due to a shortage of fertilizer, Juan Carlos Paredes, the president of the Association of Hass Avocado Producers of Peru (ProHass) told Agraria.

Most people expected the growth of Peruvian vegetable exports to continue this year.