Read Online QUINOA: is it a profitable business?: A Market Analysis between 2010-2020 Kindle
An analysis of the quinoa market between 2010 and 2020, in three “acts”:1. Before 20132. The “black” period 2014-20183. Year 2019 and beyond.The author analyzes the fluctuations of the quinoa market, and leads by the hand to establish what is the estimated world consumption, using public information regarding harvested volumes, exports and internal consumption, in the main producing countries that are Peru and Bolivia. Therefore, as a result of this, the Law of Supply and Demand can be applied in such a way that what has happened is analyzed year by year in relation to consumption and the resulting export price.The author's experience in the quinoa business allows him to speak properly about the ups and downs that have occurred throughout these ten years, even in the current times of economic chaos due to the effects of Covid-19, and he even dares to project some figures for the years to come.It was thus that, reading the article by Mike Harkins (RIP), I was encouraged to make an initial document to be debated at the beginning of 2020, considering the preliminary figures that would be available for the end of 2019, and verify if the thesis raised that quinoa was going to be missing was valid or not.Mike left us at the end of 2019, we couldn't check his numbers against mine. The market continued without it and the Law of Supply and Demand continues to be in force as always, at the end of 2019 there was no shortage of quinoa as it did in 2014, but there was not too much left over, so it seemed that 2020 would be rather a normal year, until the Covid-19 pandemic surprised us all and who knows what could happen in the future since many of the parameters that were considered as "non-variable" have been affected ...
