In 2022, Peruvian fruit and vegetable exports are expected to grow by 15% over the previous year and reach $10 billion. A very good forecast that, according to estimates, will continue in 2023, a year in which the Association of Agricultural Producers Guilds of Peru (AGAP) expects Peruvian agro exports to peak with shipments worth 11.554 billion dollars.
In addition, the country will be among the leading exporters of 9 crops. Next year, the agro-export guild plans to maintain its leadership in the shipments of blueberry, organic banana, artichoke, and ginger, and to be the world's second-biggest exporter of asparagus, mandarin, grapes, and avocado. Peru will also improve its fresh mango exports (from being the third-biggest exporter to the first one, displacing Brazil).
It is also estimated that the country will be the fifth-biggest producer of garlic, onion, and pomegranate crops globally.
Despite the good projections, Alejandro Fuentes, the president of AGAP, clarified in a press conference on Wednesday that the higher value of shipments and sales projected for 2022 and 2023 does not mean a higher profit for companies. "Many will register losses or reduce their profit margin due to the increase in fertilizer prices, shipping freight, labor costs, and local political uncertainty," he said.
Fuentes said that the volume of agricultural exports could peak in 2023 because, by that year, the areas planted between 2019 and 2020 -before the new agrarian law- will have reached their maximum production.
New markets
The union said that they expected South Africa, Chile, the Philippines, and Japan would open their markets for grapes in the coming months; and South Africa, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Indonesia, would soon be opened for blueberries.
They also said they expected the opening of New Zealand and Israel for asparagus; Argentina, Iran, Malaysia, Taiwan, Morocco, and South Africa for mango; Mexico for ginger; and China and the United States for pitahaya.
Source: gestion.pe