Peru made up 61 percent of the world’s blueberry exports in the 2022-23 campaign.
Camila Miranda, analyst and project director of IQonsulting’s Blueberry Yearbook, reported on exports of fresh blueberries by supplier nation, and their percentage of participation in the world total, according to Agraria.
In this analysis, she included Mexico and Morocco, exporting countries that are gaining importance with their production, since they also participate in the shipping markets of Chile and Peru. In the case of Mexico, 97 percent of what it exported in this last season went to the United States.
In 2015-2016, the main exporter of blueberries was Chile, with 61 percent of all exports, and the second largest exporter was Argentina, with 14 percent.
This configuration has already changed completely, because Peru began to increase its volume, from 9 percent in those years to 61 percent of everything exported in the 2022-2023 season.
Chile has continued to fall, and it now amounts to 16 percent of the total blueberries exported, Miranda reports.
Mexico is similar to Peru in terms of the way it has grown, increasing its volume and participation from 5 percent in 2015-2016 to 15 percent in 2022-2023, similar to Morocco, which grew from 8 percent (in the campaign 2015-2016) to 12 percent this season. South Africa grew to a lesser extent (4 percent), and Argentina fell in exports to 1 percent in the 2022-2023 season.
If all these suppliers are considered, Peru, Chile, Mexico, Morocco, South Africa, Argentina, New Zealand, Uruguay, Australia, and Colombia, add up to 555,230 tons of blueberries exported in the 2022-23 season, which reflects an increase of 11 percent, but the most was Peru, which had 30 percent growth in relation to the previous season.
