Peru exports 70% of its mango production

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Sweet, fresh and nutritious, are the characteristics that allowed Peruvian mango to start getting a share of external markets.

This fruit found a bigger market in the Netherlands, United States, United Kingdom and Canada. In 2011, exports to those destinations generated US$154.5 million, some 28.7% more than 2010, according to Promperú.

The vice-president for the Association of Agricultural Producing Guilds in Peru (AGAP), José Antonio Gómez, precise that this increase is due to bigger prices abroad.

on average, he explained, the price for a ton of mango abroad is between US$1.000 and US$1.200. Internally, it's price if US$600. Presently, 70% of production is sent abroad.

Promperú and AGAP coincide in the fact that the biggest demand is for fresh, frozen mango, pulp and juices, meaning that consumers demand an added value product: "There's a tendency to consume healthy", affirmed the source at AGAP.

Source: Peru21.pe