Colombia
Colombian Hass avocado exports grew by 45.7 per cent in volume in 2025, according to the Ministry of Commerce. Antioquia alone accounted for nearly half of all shipments. Around 41,000 hectares are now certified for export, and the total harvest reached roughly...
Peru
Peru is now the world’s largest exporter of table grapes and of blueberries. Almost all of it grows in one of the driest places on earth. The coastal strip between the Andes and the Pacific gets close to no rain at all. Ica, La Libertad, Piura and Lambayeque...
Chile
Two valleys run down to the sea at Arica, a few kilometres apart, under almost identical skies. Azapa grows olives, tomatoes and a wide range of vegetables, many of them counter-season crops that reach Chilean markets when no other region can supply them. Lluta, next...
Ecuador
On 3 September 2025, inspectors registered a suspected case of Fusarium wilt Tropical Race 4 on a seven-hectare banana farm in Santa Rosa, in the province of El Oro. On 18 December 2025, Agrocalidad and the Ministry of Agriculture confirmed it and declared a six-month...
Peru
In most of the world, asparagus rests because winter arrives. In Peru it rests because the grower turns off the water. On the desert coast there is no cold season to send the crop into dormancy, so growers create one. They stop irrigating, the fern dries down, the...
India
Indian agriculture runs on three cropping seasons, and most nutrition programmes are written as if there were one. Kharif is the monsoon crop, sown with the rains from around June and harvested from September. Rabi is the winter crop, sown from October and harvested...
