“Supermarkets prefer to keep banana prices as low as possible to win the battle for the consumer”

While the main 2024 Peruvian avocado season has finished, Hass avocado production continues to grow annually on both the coast and in the mountains of Peru. “The growth is not alarming though since the consumer market is also increasing exponentially,” says Gino Neira, co-founder of Inkawald, a family-owned company based in Peru. He adds that…

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…

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,”…

What started in 1999 as a collaboration between 13 Hass avocado producers in the central coastal area of Peru, with a total area of just 200 hectares, is nowadays an association with 71 associated producers and exporters. In 2023, Peru shipped 558,000 tons of Hass avocados to international markets and ranked as the second-largest Hass…

The official opening of the Port of Chancay on November 14, 2024, marked a turning point in international maritime trade. This port, an ambitious project developed in collaboration between Peru and China 80 kilometers north of Lima, is emerging as a strategic node that will transform the trade routes between South America and Asia, strengthening…

As the price and demand for ginger has increased in world markets, the local Peruvian population have also increased consumption of this popular food ingredient. According to Leandro Manuel Llacctarimay Figueroa, Sales and Operations Manager of the Peruvian ginger grower and exporter Agroexportaciones Llacta: “The price has been rising for four weeks now, rising by…