date:Aug 23, 2013
grew from $117 million to $141 million in shipments. ComexPeru, the countrys Foreign Trade Society, says that this growth was due to an 8.7 percent increase in the annual average asparagus price between 2008 and 2012.
Last year, the main destination for Peruvian asparagus was the United States, with shipments valued at $80 million, which is an increase of 25.5 percent year on year. In the Netherlands, another major importer of the crop, shipments were valued at $21 million, up 10.3 percent.The