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While Argentina is closer to achieving the opening of the North American fresh lemon market, after a recent visit of plant health inspectors from the United States to the country, Mediterr\u00e1nea Foundation disseminated a study highlighting the competitiveness of the productive chain of that fruit.<\/p>\n
According to the report, the lemon citrus complex is the one with the greatest international insertion compared to other agri-food chains. The exports of the three main products of the lemon activity (fresh, oil and juice) “captured almost 15% of world exports for the average of the 2010\/14 period”, according to the report.
\nIn the case of lemon oil, the market share is still higher: 40%, says the report prepared by economists Jorge Vasconcelos, Jorge Day and Guadalupe Gonz\u00e1lez, from Ieral (research institute of Mediterr\u00e1nea Foundation.<\/p>\n
When comparing the market share of other products of the regional and agroindustrial economies over the same period, the report argues that tea captured 1.8%; apples, 2.1%; beef, 2.6%, and wines, 2.6%. Only the pears are close to the yields of the lemon chain, since the market share reaches 14%, the work sustains, based on data from Comtrade. In turn, Argentina exported lemon and derivative products for US $570 million.<\/p>\n
In addition to the macro numbers of the lemon complex, the work of Mediterr\u00e1nea Foundation analyzes the case of a productive enterprise located in Salta, in the La Moraleja field, a non-usual area for the production of lemon since it is mostly made in Tucum\u00e1n. This field, of 3000 hectares, is the result of the transformation of a forest area into a production area where drip irrigation is practiced. In addition, a diversion channel and a dam were built to overcome the problem of irregular rainfall in the area.<\/p>\n
The work of Mediterr\u00e1nea Foundation maintains that the La Moraleja enterprise has a participation in the industrialization of the lemon above the national average. Of the total invoiced, “4 percent was represented by fresh lemon sales, while the remaining 96% was sales of industrialized products,” he points out.<\/p>\n
One of the advantages of the greater degree of development at the origin of the products is that while transport costs (Salta-Buenos Aires) represent 8% for fresh lemon, for oil and husk they represent 0.6 and 0, 4%, respectively, sustains the report.<\/p>\n
International insertion<\/h2>\n
Argentina has 15% of the world trade of lemon, composed of fresh product, oil and juice<\/p>\n
In processed products, such as oil, participation reaches 40%. In total, Argentina exported for 570 million dollars
\nThis insertion of the lemon citrus complex is higher to that of other chains such as tea (1.8%) or apples (2.1%), based on the period 2010-2014<\/p>\n