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“This Peruvian avocado season is really a puzzle that we are barely starting to put together”

As Peru’s avocado season is nearing the halfway mark, the climate related challenges mean forecasting how it will progress and eventually end, still remain somewhat of a mystery. Renzo Ceruti, general manager of the Geneva, Switzerland based importer Three Rivers, “This avocado season from Peru is particularly challenging due to the weather impact, we have seen higher temperatures and they have resulted in lesser volumes, smaller sizes and a shift in the harvests from the different regions of Peru.”

Full article in FreshPlaza
FreshPlaza Special on Peru (May 2024)

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“Europe needs an entity similar to the US National Mango Board to increase consumption levels”

After a season in which Peruvian mango exports fell by nearly 75% due to abnormal weather influenced by El Niño and the passage of Cyclone Yaku, the sector hopes to recover in the upcoming campaign, which will start around week 45 and will last, as usual, until approximately week 13. Frutas de Piura S.A.C., a…

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First air shipment of organic Peruvian ginger landed in the U.S. yesterday

The supply chain for organic ginger in the U.S. is pretty much empty. As a result, retailers have been eagerly waiting for Peru’s season to get started. “Ginger from Peru is a very desirable product, and the country grows a yellow variety that has a high level of gingerol that most other countries don’t grow,”…

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Avocados take to New York Fleet Week

On May 24, Avocados from Peru honored the people of the U.S. Navy with a super avocado breakfast on board the USS Bataan during New York Fleet Week. Vice Admiral Douglas Perry, Commander of Joint Force Command Norfolk, Commander U.S. 2nd Fleet, and Fleet Director, Combined Joint Operations from the Sea Centre of Excellence, joined…

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Over the last ten years, banana producers in Peru have been paid satisfactory prices

At the dawn of this century, numerous small-scale banana producers in the Peruvian province of Sullana, often with plantations not exceeding one hectare, struggled to receive the full agreed-upon amount for their produce sales. It was a consequence of a clear lack of integration and organization, necessary to assert their presence in the markets. This…

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Peru invites hundreds of fruit importers to its country every year

With 34 million inhabitants, Peru has twice the population of the Netherlands, and in terms of area, the South American country is 31 times larger. On the coast of Peru, a desert area that is three times the size of the Netherlands, the horticultural production did not start to develop substantially until about 25 years…

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In the first quarter of the year, Peruvian agricultural exports increased by 8.7%

In the first three months of 2024, Peruvian agricultural traditional and non-traditional exports amounted to $2.388 billion, i.e. 8.7% more over the same period of 2023, according to the Peruvian Association of Exporters (ADEX). Agribusiness (with added value) reached $2.209 billion, achieving a 92.4% share and a 5.9% increase. Claudia Solano Oré, the union’s Agro-exports…

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