Peru
Peru grows more potatoes than any other country in Latin America. National production reached about 6 million tonnes in 2022 on some 341,000 hectares, and around 90 per cent of it comes from the Andean highlands, much of it between 2,000 and 4,500 metres. The national...
Colombia
Colombia grows passion fruit in almost every corner of the country. Agrosavia counts around 24,000 hectares of passifloras spread across 24 departments and more than 400 municipalities, concentrated in Huila, Antioquia, Meta and Tolima. Two of those fruits matter most...
Ecuador
Ecuador’s pitahaya exports reached about 273 million dollars in 2025, up 32 per cent, according to the exporters’ federation Fedexpor, with around 64,000 tonnes shipped. Planted area grew from roughly 1,500 hectares in 2021 to more than 8,100 hectares a...
Colombia
Colombia buys almost all of its fertilizer from abroad. Industry figures put imports at around 2.3 million tonnes a year against consumption of roughly 2.4 to 2.5 million, and the country produces no urea of its own. Urea is its single most imported fertilizer, with...
Chile
Twenty-five years ago there was almost no European hazelnut in Chile. By 2024 the official fruit survey by Odepa counted about 49,000 hectares, mostly in Maule, La Araucania and Nuble, and industry figures from AgriChile, the Ferrero subsidiary that led the expansion,...
