The first shipment of Peruvian Satsuma
to Japan has been scheduled for the second week of April this year, through the Mitsui Group, the
has informed.
Corresponding exports from the South American country to the Asian nation were authorized on September 26, 2018.
In this sense, Satsuma mandarins will be sold —starting the second week of May— in large supermarket chains and other establishments based in the Asian country.
According to Peru's Agriculture and Irrigation Ministry (Minagri), Satsuma cultivation began in the Inca nation back in 1940, when Japanese immigrants brought them from their homeland.
It should be noted this fruit is currently being exported to other territories such as the United Kingdom.
Coincidentally, Satsuma mandarins will be returning to their place of origin after almost 80 years.
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