Morocco has consolidated its fruit and vegetable exports to Canadian market for the fourth consecutive year from 2018 to 2023, EastFruit news platform said.
Moroccan exporters shipped 94 thousand tons of fresh, frozen, and dried fruits and vegetables to Canada in 2023, worth $95 million. This is a remarkable increase from four years ago, when they only delivered 56 thousand tons and $30 million worth of produce.
The export to the Canadian market also rose by 15% in volume and by 20% in value last year. Mandarins dominated the Moroccan export to Canada, accounting for 83 % of the total tons of fruits exported to this country. Oranges followed with 12%, and the rest included frozen fruits and vegetables, fresh blueberries, lemons, grapefruits, and some other items.
The main driver of the Moroccan export growth to the Canadian market was the surge in mandarin shipments, which jumped by 29% to 78 thousand tons.
Canada is one of the world’s largest consumers of fruit and vegetable products. It ranks ninth and twelfth in the world in terms of importing mandarins and oranges respectively. It is also the fifth largest buyer of frozen garden strawberries and fresh blueberries in the world.
Morocco is the top supplier of mandarins to Canada, providing about a third of all the imports of these fruits that enter the Canadian market. In the orange segment, Moroccan exporters came fourth in the ranking of suppliers to the Canadian market last year. As for frozen strawberries, Morocco was the fifth largest supplier.
