Peru is the main blueberry exporter in America and one of the world's largest producers. Recently, the National Agrarian Health Service of Peru (SENASA) established the mandatory phytosanitary requirements for the importation of in vitro blueberry plants from Planasa, registered and authorized by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of Spain (MAPA), which will result in the official export certification. Thus, Planasa will be the first Spanish company authorized to sell in vitro blueberry plants in this country.
The MAPA will send the Planasa authorization annually at the beginning of each export season. For its part, the National Agrarian Health Service (Senasa), in coordination with the MAPA, may make supervision visits to the producer nursery if deemed necessary.
Planasa has in its program six new blueberry varieties; the result of several years of research, and expects to start their production in the coming months. This is the second Planasa project that has the backing of COFIDES, a public-private company that offers financial support to investments by Spanish companies abroad. The company had already been backed in 2019 to expand its activities in Mexico.
COFIDES will support Planasa in its expansion in Peru through a joint venture loan of the equivalent value in Euro of 3 million dollars (up to 2.65 million Euro) from its own resources and the FIEX fund. The Planasa Group will allocate this funding to the acquisition of land in order to increase the production of blueberry plants in this country.
The president and CEO of COFIDES, José Luis Curbelo, stated that "COFIDES is contributing to improve the competitiveness and innovation of companies by promoting a sustainable growth model."
For his part, the CEO of Planasa, Michael Brinkmann, thanked COFIDES "for the collaboration to start projects that are going to be crucial for Planasa. Our strategy is going to focus mainly on blueberries, with the six new varieties, and blackberries, so the initiative in Peru will mark our growth in the coming years”.
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Paula Crespo
PLANASA
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