Costa Rica's food exports "shrinked" by tens of millions of dollars in the first three quarters from a year earlier

Costa Rica's food exports fell by $10 million year-on-year in the year to the end of September, with the most notable declines in several products including sucrose, fruit juices, fruit concentrates and functional beverage preparations.
Costa Rica's Foreign Trade Promotion Agency (Procomer) recently reported that international sales in Costa Rica's food industry sector were $1,225m between January and September, down 1 per cent from $1,235m a year earlier, Costa Rica's National newspaper reported on November 10th.
this breaks Costa Rica's steady growth in food exports in the first three quarters of 2014.
, Costa Rica's exports of fruit juice and concentrated fruit pulp (oranges and pineapples) fell by $34m in the first three quarters of this year compared with the same period last year, according to Pedro Beirute, head of Costa Rica's Foreign Trade Promotion Agency.
explained that in the export of pineapple juice, Costa Rica, in addition to competing with several Asian countries, has also experienced changes in the import strategy of pineapple consumers.
, pineapple fresh fruit is more likely to buy a good price, so merchants prefer to import fresh fruit rather than fruit juice.
exports of orange juice are related to the production of oranges in Costa Rica.
costa Rica has been replacing its orange trees since last year, and the new fruit trees are not yet highly produced.
On the other hand, statistics provided by the Sugarcane Agricultural Industry Alliance (Liga Agrícola Industrial de la Ca?a?a de Azúcar) show that, despite the increase in Costa Rica's sugar exports to a number of countries, sugar exports to the United States, New Zealand and Indonesia have declined significantly (by $18 million, $14 million and $10 million in turn), resulting in a 22 per cent year-on-year decrease in Costa Rican sugar exports.
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