What is the price of yams per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica yams is between US$ 3.98 and US$ 5.48 per kilogram or between US$ 1.80 and US$ 2.48 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of yams in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for yams is between CRC 2,161.73 and CRC 2,976.37 per kilogram or between CRC 980.38 and CRC 1,349.83 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2025, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica yams is between US$ 2.78 and US$ 3.83 per kilogram or between US$ 1.26 and US$ 1.74 per pound(lb).
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Costa Rica yams - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The quantity of yams exported by Costa Rica in 2020 was 9,454 metric tons. In 2019 Costa Rica shipped 9,190 tonnes of yams. For the year 2019 alone, the demand for Costa Rica yams (tubers category) has reduced, changing by -1.087 % compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, yams' exports decreased by -28.67 pc netting the nation US$9.88m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's yams exports are categorised as:
- Yams "Dioscorea spp.", fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets (HS code 071430)
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Costa Rica yams export values
In 2019, Costa Rica supplied yams valued at 9.88m USD, a decrease of -7.48% from 2018's total yams export of 10.679m USD. The yearly reduction in value of Costa Rica yams between 2017 to 2018 was 1.511 pc.
The annual variation in the amount of Costa Rica's yams exports between 2017 and 2019 was -28.67% when compared to a variation of -1.087% in the growth rate between 2018 and 2019.
Costa Rica's share of the world's total yams' exports in 2019 was less than 1%. Costa Rica holds number 76 in world exports of yams.
Export markets for Costa Rica yams ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica brought in 0 tonnes of yams in 2019.
Production
The production of yams in Costa Rica was 28,023 tonnes in 2019 and is projected to change by an average of 22.26%. The country had an estimated 1,929.00 hectares under yams cultivation.