In the 2022 campaign, Peruvian Hass avocado accounted for 10% of the US market's avocado imports. Peru exported 125,395 tons of Hass avocados to the United States in this campaign, i.e. 46.4% more than the 85,652 tons it shipped to this market in 2021 (a year in which exports increased by 9% over 2020), stated the president of the Association of Hass Avocado Producers of Peru (ProHass), Juan Carlos Paredes Rosales.
"The Peruvian avocado that arrived in the United States this year was of very high quality, which could help improve exports next year," Paredes stated. Currently, the Peruvian fruit has a good image in the US market. In the past, the Peruvians themselves harmed the image of their product by sending avocadoes with less dry matter than what the market required. This had a toll on the product's image which can still be perceived in the prices that the fruit achieves in that destination. "The market can quickly lose its confidence in a product. Restoring it, however, takes time," he added.
Juan Carlos Paredes hopes that the 125,395 tons of Hass avocado exported in this year's campaign will help continue to change that perception and that in next year's campaign Peru will export 200,000 tons of that fruit to that destination.
In 2022, Peru was the US market's third-biggest supplier of Hass avocado. The US had 1.216.050 tons of Hass avocado available in this campaign. 78% of this volume was of Mexican origin, 10% came from California, 10% from Peru, 2% from Colombia, 0.49% from Chile, and 0.03% from the Dominican Republic.
Source: agraria.pe