from agropages

The agricultural exports of the Latin American countries grew 8.5% in value during April in their year-on-year comparison and it is expected that in May the growing trend will continue, in a framework where the total exports of the region fell by 29.9%.

“Agricultural exports from 14 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean increased in dollars by 8.5% year-on-year in April, within the framework of a deep drop of 29.9% in total external sales,” remarked the Inter-American Institute for Agricultural Cooperation (IICA).

Meanwhile, he stressed that “preliminary data from May ratify this trend, indicating that the production and trade of agricultural goods will be one of the engines of economic recovery in the region”.

The countries considered for the statistic were Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.