date:Feb 15, 2019
The first harvest season of pitahaya started in Palora, the biggest producer of this fruit in the country. Producers expect to export 1 million kilos, including organic fruit, between this month and March. The fruit is sold to Asia, the European Union, and - for the third year- to the USA.
One of those sales was the first shipment of organic pitahaya for the US from the Sangay farm, in Palora. On Monday, February 11, 2019, 240 kilograms of organic pitahaya were exported to Los Angeles through t