What is the price of vegetables per kilogram/pound in Costa Rica today?
The retail price range for Costa Rica vegetables is between US$ 1.43 and US$ 3.94 per kilogram or between US$ 0.65 and US$ 1.79 per pound(lb). Click here to see today's exact prices of vegetables in Costa Rica
The retail price range in Costa Rican Colon for vegetables is between CRC 778.11 and CRC 2,141.16 per kilogram or between CRC 352.89 and CRC 971.05 per pound(lb) in San José and Alajuela.
Wholesale prices
In 2025, the approximate wholesale price range for Costa Rica vegetables is between US$ 1.00 and US$ 2.76 per kilogram or between US$ 0.45 and US$ 1.25 per pound(lb).
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Prices of other produce in the Vegetables category in Costa Rica: Tomatoes, Onions, Leeks, Cauliflowers and broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Cabbages, Lettuce, Chicory, Carrots & beetroot, salsify & celeriac.
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Costa Rica vegetables - Production, Exports, Imports, Seasons and HS Codes
The volume of vegetables shipped by Costa Rica in 2020 was 37,020 tonnes. In 2019 Costa Rica sold 37,007 tonnes of vegetables. For 2019 alone, the market for Costa Rica vegetables (vegetables category) has shrunk, changing by -0.1322323 % compared to the year 2018. Between 2017 and 2019, vegetables' exports went up by 5.33 percent bringing the country US$28.96m for the year 2019. Costa Rica's vegetables exports are categorised as:
- Dried vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared (excluding onions, mushrooms and truffles, not mixed) (HS code 071290)
- Dried, shelled leguminous vegetables, whether or not skinned or split (excluding peas, chickpeas, beans, lentils, broad beans, horse beans and pigeon peas) (HS code 071390)
- Vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen (excluding preserved by sugar, and tomatoes, mushrooms, truffles and potatoes, unmixed) (HS code 200490)
- Vegetables, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen (excluding potatoes, leguminous vegetables, spinach, New Zealand spinach, orache spinach, and sweetcorn) (HS code 071080)
- Fresh or chilled vegetables (excluding potatoes, tomatoes, vegetables of the Allium spp., cabbages of the genus Brassica, lettuces of the species Lactuca sativa and Cichorium, carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots, cucumbers and gherkins, leguminous vegetables, asparagus, aubergines, mushrooms, truffles, fruits of the genus Capsicum or of the genus Pimenta, spinach, New Zealand spinach and orache spinach) (HS code 070990)
- Homogenised vegetables put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in containers of <= 250 g (HS code 200510)
- Vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar, non-frozen (excluding preserved by sugar, homogenized vegetables of subheading 2005.10, and tomatoes, mushrooms, truffles, potatoes, peas "Pisum sativum", beans "Vigna, Phaseolus", asparagus, olives and sweet corn "Zea Mays var. Saccharata", unmixed) (HS code 200590)
- Fresh or chilled vegetables n.e.s. (HS code 070999)
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Costa Rica vegetables export values
In 2019, Costa Rica exported vegetables worth 28.96m USD, a growth of 4.62% from 2018's total vegetables export of 27.682m USD. The annual growth in value of Costa Rica vegetables between 2017 to 2018 was 9.567 per cent.
The yearly variation in the amount of Costa Rica's vegetables exports between 2017 and 2019 was 5.33 percent in comparison to a variation of -0.1322323% in the period between 2018 and 2019.
Export markets for Costa Rica vegetables ( in '000$ )
Costa Rica's top destinations for vegetables are Saudi Arabia, US, Honduras, Canada and United Kingdom (UK).
Costa Rica ordered 5,150 tonnes of vegetables in 2019.
Production
The production of vegetables in Costa Rica was 373,696 tonnes in 2019 and is projected to change by an average of -0.07%. The country had approximately 24,136.00 hectares under vegetables cultivation.