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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. Although Chile remains the dominant Southern Hemisphere exporter, Peru has caught up with other major Southern Hemisphere suppliers Ecuador and South Africa.

China is the world's largest lychee producer in terms of overall surface area devoted to lychee plantation as well as production volume. Around 52.6% of the overall surface area devoted to lychee plantation in the world is located in China. The lychees from many different production areas on Hainan Island entered the market at the same time because weather conditions were excellent. The sudden increase in supply created competition in the market.

Supplies of pineapple from Costa Rica could drop in the coming weeks.

The last week of May is the time of year when open-field cherries enter the Chinese market in large volumes. However, the market conditions were not great for greenhouse cherries and now the market for open-field cherries looks bleak. In Shandong the price of Chinese cherries already dropped below 10 yuan [1.57 USD] per 0.5 kg. The supply volume is huge and sales conditions are not great. That is why the price of poor quality cherries dropped as low as 5 yuan [0.78 USD] per 0.5 kg.

The World Fruits Conference CANCON14 Opens in Murcia, the Spanish Agricultural Town.

USDA buys cheaper canned peaches