Blueberries, generalities and development in the world market: a literature review

Abstract

Throughout agriculture within the market, favorable results have been presented for the international and national economy through the export of the star product in recent years, considered a "superfruit", such as blueberries. The objective of this article was based on analyzing the existing literature on blueberries, generalities and development in the world market. For this, it was approached from a bibliographic or documentary design, of the literature review type. For this, five open access databases were used as resources: Google academic, Dialnet, Scielo, Latindex and Scopus, which allowed the location and choice of sources; For this reason, 58 sources were investigated, of which 40 were chosen, in the English and Spanish languages. From the investigation it is derived that the blueberry market and commercialization have a great impact on the economy and society worldwide. Blueberries are a profitable crop and their production and sale generate employment and business opportunities for producers and distributors. In addition, the growing demand for blueberries in international markets has led to an increase in production and the expansion of blueberry crops in many countries around the world. Likewise, the marketing and sale of blueberries also has a positive impact on the health of consumers, since blueberries have been shown to have health benefits, such as the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, the improvement of brain function and the prevention of of cancer.