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Photo report: Fresh produce department at Metro supermarket, Lima
In the heart of Miraflores, we visited a Metro supermarket. It was a large store with 2 floors. All the fresh produce was located on the 2nd floor. What stood out was the price difference between imported and local products. Click here to open the photo report Full article in FreshPlazaFreshPlaza Special on Peru (May…
“The idea is to continue gaining agricultural land from the desert in the north and south of Peru”
20 years ago, Peruvian agro-exports mainly consisted of coffee beans, cocoa beans and asparagus and were worth around $1 billion; last year, however, the agricultural export sector managed to surpass the $10 billion threshold after diversifying its range with fruits like avocados, mandarins, table grapes, mangoes and blueberries, according to Edgar Manuel Vásquez Vela, director…
“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…
“Peruvian limes have 25% more juice than Mexican limes”
After 10 years of experience, the agro-exporting company Sol de Olmos has become Peru’s leading garlic exporter, the third-largest in dried chilies and the fourth in limes, and it continues to aim high. Its next goal is to become the second or third largest exporter of limes this year 2024. “We started our journey in…
Modern easy peeler varieties give a boost to Peruvian mandarin exports
While Peruvian mandarin shipments to overseas destinations doubled from 20,000 tons in 2005 to 40,000 tons in 2013, exports truly picked up pace in the following eight years, reaching 200,000 tons by 2020. “The reason for this impressive growth was the introduction of modern easy peelers varieties, particularly the Nadorcott and Tango,” says Alfonso Rizo-Patrón,…
Peru’s First distribution centre in Canada will show the best of the Peruvian exportable offer
Sea salt, nutritional shakes, quinoa pops, among other products will be distributed under the umbrella of Superfoods Peru December 23, 2020.-. Peru inaugurated its first Distribution Centre in Toronto, Canada, with 38 new products. The centre, which will facilitate the access of Peruvian products into the Canadian market, will handle at first products from six…