Peru will begin competing in cherries in the coming years

Peru's agricultural sector has seen significant growth over the last two decades, according to Gabriel Amaro, president of the Association of Agricultural Producers Guilds of Peru (Agap). The country is now looking to expand its crop production to include high-value crops like cherries, following a revolution in the sector led by changes in the Constitution, land ownership laws, and the Law of Agrarian Promotion. This has enabled Peru to become competitive in markets such as table grapes and blueberries. Other crops under consideration for cultivation include raspberries and persimmons.

(Agraria.pe) Gabriel Amaro, president of the Association of Agricultural Producers Guilds of Peru (Agap), said that the country's agricultural development continues, and that the next step is to focus on high-value crops that until recently seemed unlikely to be produced, such as cherries. He indicates that what has happened in these 20 years in Peruvian agriculture has been a 'revolution', and maintains that there has not been a 'starting point', but rather a sum of elements. "I always say that the planets aligned. A very difficult thing to happen, happened, because it is not a single element that happened for agriculture to emerge. You know that it is a very large, very complex sector, so there is not just one element, but several." The keys, according to the union leader, were the change in the Constitution in the nineties: "The issue of equal treatment for national and foreign investment, legal security for land ownership... And an element that has been totally disruptive, ...