Estimates are that over 423,000 hectares will be planted and vegetable crops will produce 1,115,000 tons in the current agricultural season, spring-summer 2014.
The Ministry of Rural Development of the State Government, via the Undersecretary for Agricultural Development, Guillermo Gonzalez Osuna, emphasized that, to date, 30,000 hectares had already been planted.
According to Gonzalez Osuna, the 19 crops planted, mainly concentrated in the central and southern part of the state, included their different varieties, such as forage sorghum and grain sorghum, green peppers and bell peppers, red tomatoes and green tomatoes, etc.
He stressed that there were excellent prospects for this agricultural cycle and that if the weather conditions continued developing as they had so far, the harvest would increase.
In this regard, he said, the rainfalls in the southern part of the state had amounted to seven inches and to a little over two inches in the central part of the state during the month of June, which would allow the plants to have an excellent development and have good yields.
"It is critical to acknowledge that the agricultural area in Tamaulipas is of one and a half million hectares, 500,762 of which have irrigation and the rest depend on the weather," said the state official.
Osuna González indicated that agricultural spring-summer period had officially started in May 2014 and would come to an end on August 31.