Predicting production for the upcoming mango campaign in Peru is still hard. The manager of the Peruvian Association of Mango Producers and Exporters (APEM), Juan Carlos Rivera Ortega, told Agraria.pe that there is less flowering in the fields than in the previous campaign (2022/2023) because the temperatures in winter were 2.5 to 4 degrees higher than usual.
With these temperatures, the mango does not feel obliged to accelerate its reproduction, that's why they don't bloom or have very little flowers, Rivera said. "When you walk through the mango fields in Piura, Olmos, and Motupe (Lambayeque) you see that there are very few flowers," he stated.
According to the APEM manager, there are two possible scenarios: that the final flowering is very poor (as it would be less than half of last season's flowering), or that the flowering is delayed. "Maybe we can wait another 2 or 3 weeks for the crops to bloom, after that period there can be no flowering."
"What is certain, is that there will be less production and the campaign will begin in November, as there will be a 3 to 4-week delay," he added. In addition, since there's little flowering, sizes could be larger.
Source: agraria.pe
