Peruvian sweet onion exports amounted to 122,000 tonnes during the 2013/2014 campaign, which started in early August 2013 and ended in late January 2014, and had revenues of around $ 30 million dollars.
KeyPerú’s general manager, Miguel Ognio, made this announcement and added that the campaign had been surprising, as the first shipments had been slow, due to the high production of sweet onions in the United States, their main market destination, and the entry of the Peruvian products to that country had been delayed.
He also highlighted that there had been a delay in Chile's production of sweet onion, which led to a shortage of that product in that country, so Peruvian producers changed their offer to that country.
The last surprise of the campaign, he added, was that, even though they didn't expect to have much sweet onion by the end of the campaign, they exported between 200 and 300 containers per week in the months of December and January.
"This high supply of sweet onions at the end of the campaign lowered the price in the U.S. but, since there was a high demand in the European markets, several domestic producers placed their offer there," he said.
Ognio said that KeyPeru had exported 10,000 tons of onions to the United States and Europe.
Source: Agraria.pe