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Peru’s food retail market is adapting to the economic hardships and realities arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Peru’s fruit exports have grown quickly during the last decade, rising from just $540 million in 2010 to $3.8 billion in 2020, with Peru ranking in the world’s top 10 fruit exporting countries since 2017.

Despite the flooding and disruption caused by the coastal El Niño in March, Peruvian avocado production in CY 2017 is forecast to increase by 20 percent over CY 2016 due to new plantations....

Peru is forecast to continue being a major asparagus exporter, focused primarily on the U.S. and European markets. Asparagus production is expected to continue growing during 2017.

Blueberries now are Peru’s third most valuable fresh fruit export, an impressive leap from virtually nothing less than five years ago.