Peru's 2016 avocado shipments increased 29.7%
The business association stressed farming-exports have had a good performance over recent years. In this sense, they experienced a 6.7% increase in 2016.
Since 2006, avocados have been positioning as the third-most exported farming product, behind grapes and asparagus.
According to the National Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat), Peruvian avocado shipments experienced an accumulated growth of 146.2% in the 2011-2016 period.
source: andina.com.pe
