The organic banana in Peru. Producder country file

La banane biologique au Pérou. Fiche pays producteur

Carolina Dawson () and Thierry Lescot ()
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Carolina Dawson: UR GECO - Fonctionnement écologique et gestion durable des agrosystèmes bananiers et ananas - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Thierry Lescot: UR GECO - Fonctionnement écologique et gestion durable des agrosystèmes bananiers et ananas - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

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Abstract: Exporting approximately 14 % of world organic banana volumes, i.e. 210 000 tonnes, Peru's young export banana industry remains modest in size. The 10 000 or so micro-growers, concentrated in the north of the country, have managed to develop one of the world's leading organic and Fairtrade certified banana export centres, thanks in particular to the absence of black sigatoka. However, the sector's strong growth dynamic, taking root in the early 2000s, seems to have disappeared. While the market demand remains, growers are now faced with increasing problems of water management, soil biological fertility, as well as new sanitary stresses such as the arrival of TR4 since 2021. On top of these are problems of profitability in the face of stiffening international competition, with new, more efficient producer countries coming into their own, and in an increasingly competitive market context.

Keywords: commerce international; commerce agricole; secteur agro-alimentaire; économie agricole; production végétale; aliment biologique; agriculture biologique; Musa (bananes); banane; Pérou (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in FruiTrop Thema, 2022, 280, pp.10-19

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