Over the last five years, Moroccan exports of peppers to the European Union (EU) have maintained their dynamism, and even prospered.
In the first three months of 2024, these exports rose by 48.47% compared with 2019, propelling the Kingdom to second place among exporters of this vegetable to the EU, according to ICEX Eurostat data relayed by Hortoinfo.
Despite recurrent episodes of drought that have severely affected the Kingdom in recent years, causing a significant impact on the agricultural sector, Morocco nevertheless managed to secure second place in the ranking of EU bell pepper suppliers for the same period.
The volume exported amounted to 63.99 million kilograms, representing 19.23% of total EU imports, an increase of 20.89 million kilograms or 48.47% on 2019.
Between January 1 and March 31, 2024, Morocco sold a total of €84.88 million worth of peppers on the EU market. The average selling price of Moroccan peppers was 1.33 euros per kilogram, according to the same source.
In Spain, the Iberian Kingdom leads the EU in bell pepper sales, with a volume of 158.42 million kilograms sold in the first quarter of 2024, representing 47.6% of all sales of this vegetable in the EU.
However, this figure marks a decrease of 136.78 million kilograms compared to 2019.
Turkey, meanwhile, ranks third, with a volume of 38.04 million kilograms sold between January and March 2024, representing 11.43% of total EU bell pepper sales.
This represents a significant increase of 18.3 million kilograms on the same period in 2019, when Turkish bell pepper sales reached 19.74 million kilograms.
For its part, Germany sold a total of 19.16 million kilograms of peppers in the EU in the first quarter of 2024, representing 5.76% of the total volume purchased by EU member states, which means a 33.23% drop compared to the same period in 2019.
The same goes for bell pepper sales from the Netherlands, which fell drastically by -49.09%, from 30.05 million kilograms sold on EU markets in the first three months of 2019 to just 15.3 million in the same months of 2024.
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