Guanajuato sells more food to the world in the middle of the pandemic

Published June 21st, 2021

In the midst of the pandemic, food exports increased by 47%, having invoiced more than 1,487 million dollars during 2020.

This was reported by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), which reported the behavior of the country’s exports and where Guanajuato had higher numbers than it had during 2019, where one billion 13 million dollars in food were sold abroad.

The confinement that was experienced around the world and that made people stay at home forced an increase in food consumption, which caused Guanajuato, one of the world’s food suppliers, to have higher sales than it had in 2019 due to the pandemic.

In the state, there are 150 companies exporting frozen food and that had sales of more than one billion 80 million dollars, while the sale of fruits and vegetables had a sales increase of 10% and that reached 350 million dollars.

During the year of the beginning of the pandemic, the food supply varied, since until 2019 the restaurant sector was the one that consumed the most, but now sales were retail and mostly in commercial chains and markets.

In five years, Guanajuato’s food exports increased by 130%, since in 2016 646 million dollars were exported against 1,487 million dollars in 2020.

The United States is Guanajuato’s main customer, buying 89.3% of the food, but countries such as Japan, Canada, the Netherlands, Guatemala, Honduras, South Korea, and Colombia are also the ones that buy Guanajuato food.