âLimited supply and boat delays causing shortage on the avocado marketâ
The mango market s in transition from Peru to the Ivory Coast. The Peruvian season s almost over. The last boats are in, and next week, the last airfreight mangos will arrive, says Ive Lambert of Belgian import company Starfruit. Peru s had a generally good season. They didn t have a big price dip, which happens in some years. Still, there are always a few difficult weeks. There weren t extreme prices like last year. It s been a normal season, price and import-wise.
âWe re getting the first boatloads of mangos from the Ivory Coast this week. That country s had a poorer harvest, so the sizes are very large this year. Normally they have the opposite problem and pick many small sizes. These large numbers of large gradings can sometimes cause problems for supermarket programs. Many supermarkets want size 8 or 9. But this year, less than ten percent of the crop is size 9.