During the first two months of the year, the country's sales abroad amounted to $519 million, 15% more than the same period in 2019, a rise that is explained by the increase in international prices.
Figures from the Center for Export Procedures (Cetrex) detail that between the first two months of 2019 and the same period of 2020, exports increased by $68 million, from $450 million to $519 million.
More demanding quality standards in international markets and lack of financing explain the 40% drop reported in exports to November 2019.
According to figures from the Center for Export Procedures (Cetrex), between January and November 2019 the country exported 442 tons of natural honey, a volume that is 20% lower than the tons traded during the same period in 2018.
In a context of economic recession, Nicaraguan exports have recorded good performance, as to November 2019 revenues totaled $2,536 million, 4% higher than reported in the same period of 2018.
Figures from the Centro de Tramites de Exportaciones (Cetrex) detail that between January and November 2018 and the same period in 2019, foreign sales increased by $89 million, going from $2,447 million to $2,536 million.
After last year's sales of grain abroad grew 19% compared to 2017, in the first eight months of 2019 Nicaraguan cocoa exports totaled $5.8 million, 48% more than in the same period of 2018.
Regarding the volume traded, the figures of the Exports Processing Center (Cetrex) that between January and August 2018 and the same period of 2019, the figure increased from 2,433 to 3,405 tons.
For the 2018-2019 harvest, the country began to export coffee of the Robusta variety, and according to the producers for the next agricultural cycles they plan to increase their cultivable area.
According to figures from the Center for Export Procedures (Cetrex) between October 2018 and May 2019, the country sold abroad about 50,000 quintals of the Robusta variety, being the first time that the species of the grain is reported in official export figures.
During the first five months of the year, exports totaled $1.145 million, 10% less than in the same period in 2018, and export destinations also declined in the period concerned.
According to data from the Centro de Trámites de Exportaciones (Cetrex), between January and May 2018 and the same period in 2019, foreign sales decreased by $134 million, going from $1.279 million to $1.145 million.
The year-on-year fall of 3.5% reported in exports up to January 2019, results from the contraction of coffee, sugar, peanut and fish sales.
Statistics from the Center for Export Procedures (Cetrex) indicate that between January 2018 and the same month in 2019, the country's foreign sales decreased by $8.5 million, going from $239.5 million to $231 million.
Even though in 2018 cocoa was better quoted internationally, the volume sold abroad fell 8% compared to 2017, going down from 4,238 to 3,886 tons.
In contrast to the negative variation in the volume traded, figures from the Export Processing Center (Cetrex) detail that between 2017 and 2018 the value of exports registered a 18.9% growth, increasing from $5.3 million to $6.3 million. This increase is explained by the behavior of the grain price.
Because of the behavior of exports made to the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy, between 2017 and 2018 the sales of the Central American country to the member states of the European Union fell from $307 million to $280 million.
According to figures from the Centro de Trámites de las Exportaciones (Cetrex) last year, exports from the country to the United Kingdom reported a 11% decrease over 2017.
In June, the country exported 34,000 tons of coffee, registering a fall of 25.5% compared to 46,000 tons sold in the same month in 2017.
The price of coffee also recorded a decline, according to figures from the Center for Procedures for Exports (Cetrex), in June this year $150 per hundredweight was paid, representing a decrease of 10% compared to the $167 paid in the sixth month of 2017.
In the last five years, exports of oranges amounted to only $49 million, but the union of exporters believes that markets such as the United States and Europe are not yet being fully exploited.
Increasing the cultivated area to take advantage, for example, of the negative effect of the climatic phenomena on orange plantations in Florida, USA, is one of the suggestions of the Association of Producers and Exporters of Nicaragua (APEN) to increase business for citrus growers.
Despite the new import requirements imposed by the Salvadoran government, in 2017 the Nicaraguan dairy industry managed to maintain the level of its exports to its neighboring country.
Data from a report by Cetrex shows that 2017 will have closed with growth of just 3% in exports of dairy products to El Salvador, which is positive for entrepreneurs in the sector, who in the middle of the year anticipated less favorable figures, due to the entry into force of themore restrictive import controls.
In the 2016/2017 harvest, almost three million hundredweight were exported, 20% more than in the previous cycle, and a 22% increase was achieved in the export value.
The slow but progressive recovery that coffee plantations have had since they were affected by the rust plague between 2012 and 2013 explains, together with favorable international prices, the good results achieved in exports of the grain in the harvest that has just ended.
The guild foresees closing the 2017/18 cycle with a production of more than 17 million hundredweight of sugar, which would represent a 10% increase compared to the previous cycle.
If expectations by employers in the sugar guild are met, production from the 2017/18 cycle would be the best achieved yet.Favorable climate conditions and the expected expansion of sowing areas, from 105 thousand to 109 thousand manzanas, are the reasons for the guild's expectations for the cycle that begins next month.
Exports in the first eleven months of the 2016/17 harvest totaled $17.6 million, 53% more than anything sold to the Asian country in the 2015/16 cycle.
One of the main benefits of exporting grain to Japan is that the average price paid for coffee is higher than the amount paid in other markets.According to figures from the Center for Exports, "...