Peruvian Hass avocado producers could make their first shipments to the Malaysian market in the next two months, confirmed the Association of Hass Avocado Producers of Peru (ProHass).
Juan Carlos Paredes, President of ProHass, explained that the environmental certification prepared by the National Agrarian Health Service (Senasa) to enter the Asian country will be ready before the end of the third quarter of the year.
“Malaysia is in the hands of Senasa and the country’s health authority, in the last stages. We believe that the health protocol should be completed in a couple of months, so that market would already be expedited,” he told La República.
The entry of the Peruvian Hass avocado into the Malaysian market was raised in 2019, a year after it entered the United States and the European Union.
Since then, part of the negotiations between Peru and the Southeast Asian country have included visits by specialists to the cultivation centers, as well as the supervision of the national processing plants.
The Hass avocado will enter the Malaysian market almost a year after the ratification of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), with which close to 90% of Peruvian products have the possibility of reaching that country without tariffs.
In 2021, Peruvian exports to Malaysia reached US$100 million, while non-traditional exports were approximately US$25 million.
Source: Larepublica
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