The Centre for Agricultural Research in Michoacán (CIAMICH) and the Avocado System Product Aguacate from Puebla signed an agreement to develop technical assistance in avocado orchards and training for producers of this fruit in order to improve both the quality and quantity of avocado production in the state of Puebla.
Alberto Jimenez Merino, Delegate of the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) in Puebla said that training was the path to guarantee success in the field. It doesn't matter if there is technology or financing, he said, if producers aren't taught how to make efficient use of it.
He stressed that avocado production was a major economic opportunity because Mexico produced 3 out of 10 tons consumed in the world, ranking it as the number one exporter globally.
The official said: "Avocado is a product that is sold expensively in the US and Japan recently increased its demand for the Mexican fruit, which opens a marketing opportunity abroad for Puebla."
Thus, he stated, SAGARPA and the Produce Foundation, the council of the municipality of Atlixco and the Avocado Product System will create the Avocado Variety Bank, which will stock the different avocado varieties produced in Mexico, in order to learn more about their properties, characteristics and genetic information and allow us to have a agro-genetic collection."
Puebla produces more than 12,800 tons of avocados per year in more than 2,600 hectares, mainly in the municipalities of Quimixtlán, Tochimilco and Atlixco.
Source: intoleranciadiario.com