May 17, 2012/ Week N° 20
May 16th, 2012
Better crop management effiency means Peru is capable of increasing grape plantations by a quarter.
May 9th, 2012
Peruvian agents have intercepted two metric tonnes of cocaine in banana boxes bound for Belgium.
Danish shipping line Maersk will finish up direct services from Peru and Chile to Northwest Europe.
May 8th, 2012
Peruvian president Ollanta Humala’s visit to Asia this week is expected to broaden the country’s exports.
May 7th, 2012
Peruvian growers are hoping the weather will turn chillier enabling mango plants to flower.
May 2nd, 2012
Peru has sent some insufficiently ripe avocado shipments to the U.K. in a bid to capture higher prices.
April 30th, 2012
Blockades in Paita have stopped, but fishing workers still have more demands to be addressed in a May meeting.
April 27th, 2012
One Peruvian mango processor has lost US$10,000 this week due to a fishing industry blockade in Paita.
April 26th, 2012
Peru is expected to have shipped 124,000MT of grapes between October 2011 and April 2012.
A new early ripening bright red pomegranate cultivar is taking root in Chile and Peru.
