Annona Species Monograph.pdf - Crops for the Future

Chapter 12. Economic Information
12.2), principally to the USA (70%), Japan (12%), Argentina (10%) and
Brazil (5%) (Irazabal, 1997).
Mexico produced more soursop than Brazil in the late 1990s, due both to its
larger area and to its better productivity. Assuming that the Philippines has
the same area of sugar apple in the year 2000 as it did in 1978 (2059 ha),
Brazil had comparatively higher production due to its higher productivity
(Table 12-2).
Due to the niche markets of Asians and Latin Americans in the USA market,
Thailand, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica are becoming important
cherimoya exporters to the USA (Crane and Campbell, 1990). Mexico with
its numerous appropriate microclimate conditions, has a great potential to
export cherimoya to USA and some growers have already thought of
replacing their avocado orchards with cherimoya orchards (Agustin and
Alviter, 1996), suggesting that the USA is still an important "open window"
for cherimoya exporters.
Table 12-2. Total area, production, productivity and value of three
important Annona species in some of the major producing countries
Species Country Year Area
(ha)
Production
(x 1000-t)
Productivity
(t/ha)
Value
(x 1000-
US$)
Cherimoya (1) Chile 1998 1,152 28.8 25 34,560
Peru 2000 1,975 14.6 7.4 17,527
Spain 1998 3,090 36.5 11.8 43,800
Soursop (2) Brazil 1997 2000 8 4 5,440
Mexico 1996 5,915 349 5.9 23,732
Venezuela 1987 3,496 10.1 2.9 6,868
Sugar apple (3) Brazil 2000 1,294 11.3 8.7 6,328
Philippines 1978 2,059 6.2 3.0 3,472
(1)
Considering a price of US$ 1.20/kg for fresh cherimoya fruit in Spain in
January 2004. (2) Considering a price of US$ 0.68/kg for fresh soursop fruit in
Brazil in January 2004. (3) Considering a price of US$ 0.56/kg for fresh sugar
apple fruit in Brazil in January 2004.
There is little available production data on soursop except in Mexico, Brazil
and Venezuela. Due to an increasing demand for soursop, both fresh and
processed, Mexico increased its soursop production area by 88% between
1990 and 1996. In Central Brazil, most soursop growers sell their fruits to
small agroindustries, with prices varying from US$ 0.51-0.56/kg of pulp. The
price of frozen soursop pulp was the highest (US$ 0.29/100 g in 2001)
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