Peru has exported $5 billion worth of fruit so far this year, accounting for more than 50 percent of agricultural exports and putting it on track to become one of the world's top 10 fruit suppliers this year, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) reported recently.

Walter Puelles Navarrete, general director of Peru's Development and Information Processing Agency, recalled that last year, Peru ranked 11th in the list of fruit suppliers, and this year, with the growth of fruit exports, Peru is expected to enter the top 10.

Puelles notes that blueberries are Peru's top fruit export, with exports exceeding $772 million in the first nine months of this year alone, up 30% from the same period last year; Exports were about 137,400 tons, up 45 percent year on year.

Fresh grapes ranked second in Peru's fruit exports, with more than $594 million in exports between January and September, up 12 percent from the same period last year. Exports amounted to about 252,000 tons, up 9 percent year on year.