“Habilitating and cultivating the fruit over the next three years in these 2,000 additional hectares will require the investment of $50 million US dollars, without counting the price of the land, he said”, you can read in Fresh Plaza.
Peru’s Hass avocado exports in 2018 totaled 335,000 tons, worth nearly $660 million US dollars. It is expected that in 2019 there will be an increase in shipments, but not a very significant one, said Bustamente to the press.
“In 2017, Hass avocado prices were exceptionally high in the international market, so shipments in 2018, having a lower price, showed a lower growth, despite the large increase in tons exported,” he stated.
The Hass avocado is sometimes marketed as the Bilse avocado and it has a dark green-colored, bumpy skin.
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