Mexico: Municipalities unite to produce avocados in Atlixco
During the signing of the Constitutive Act of the Cooperative, Daniel Gonzalo Lino, representative of the Avocado Product System, said this group could generate actions and manage resources in various departments in order to commercialize their product in other states and even internationally.
Gonzalo Lino thanked the University of Chapingo and the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) for believing in the producers idea, seeing the avocado as a business, and laying the foundations for the establishment of this union, which will allow industrializing the avocado sector: "This partnership will be ours, the producers".
Hector Ochoa Gonzalez, federal deputy of SAGARPA, said that this confirmed that the funding, support and training were being given to working people that deserved it: "You have demonstrated this through this union and you have shown the state and the world, the potential you have," he said.
The creation of this cooperative, which also involves producers from the municipalities of Tianguismanalco, Cohuecan, Tochimilco, and Huaquecula, allows for the consolidation of a packing project, which aims at collecting all the avocado from Atlixco and the region to package it under one brand that can be marketed in other states and countries.
Worldwide, the 20 major avocado producing countries produced 3.5 million tons and Mexico was the largest producer with 1.2 million tons, i.e. 35 percent of the production in this group.
Source: diariocambio.com.mx