Evolution of the tomato market in Argentina (Ex aecquo)

MONDINI, S.; LIVEROTTI, O.; DIAZ, K. E. ; GUISOLIS, A.; PERALTA, M.E.; CASTAGNINO, A. M.; ROGER, W. J.; FERNANDEZ LOZANO, J.

Londres

Conferencia; 10th International Conference on AGRICULTURE & HORTICULTURE; 2017

International Society for Horticultural Science - ISHS

Tomato is the principal greenhouse vegetable grown in Argentina. The aim of the current work is to analyse tomato market evolution in this country, based upon volumes received by the Buenos Aires Central Market, the main national point of reference. The following aspects were evaluated: total commercial volumes (CV) 1999-2016, evolution (E) and mean prices (MP), principal varieties (V) commercialized in 2016, origin (O), distribution by province of origin (DP) and the proportion that tomato comprises of the total volume (TV) of the horticultural produce commercialized in the reference period. For the factors evaluated, one-way analysis of variance was carried out on the tonnage values. The VC was 119,600, with a decrease over the period of 18% compared to the first year (1999: 142,968t and 2016: 117,744 t/year). In 2016, the mean monthly Ewas 9812t, where the following months exceeded this value, without significant differences between them: October-14586, December-11870, September-11494, November-10865, August-10446 and January-10027 t. The annual MP was 0.62 US$kg-1, which was exceeded in September (1.03), May (0.82), October (0.80) and November (0.63). For DP, the highest volumes were observed for Buenos Aires: 3936ta , Salta: 2187t and Corrientes: 2081tb, with the remaining origins in the following order of importance, without significant differences between them: Jujuy-774, Mendoza-625, Brasil-72; Tucumán-48; Entre Ríos-29; San Juan-28; Rio Negro-9.82, Santa Fé-8; Córdoba-5.15; Santiago del Estero-2.82; Misiones-2; Formosa-1.4; Chubut-0.75 and San Luis-0.2 tc. Overall, tomato represented 14% of the TV (850240t) commercialized (16.7% in 1999 and 13.8% in 2016). For V, the monthly volumes gave differences for Larga Vida (Octobera, November, July, February, September, August and Juneab); for Platense (January and December a, April and Februaryab) and the rest b. For origin, differences were found for all varieties: Larga Vida: Corrientesa and the rest b, Perita: Salta a, Jujuy, Buenos Aires b and Mendozabc, Cherry: Buenos Aires a, Salta, Corrientes b and Jujuy bc, Redondo: Buenos Aires a, Corrientes b and Salta ab. These results provide evidence of the positioning of tomato throughout the year in the Argentinean market.