In the absence of a comprehensive marketing policy for avocados, Mexico's per capita consumption fell by 50 percent from 14 to 6.5 kilos in the last 25 years, stated Deputy Roberto Carlos Lopez Garcia.
"We think in terms of free market, supply and demand and we are naive. An oversupply abroad will make us weak and we neglect the domestic market," said the deputy of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
He said the party was going to propose to the plenary of the 73 legislature the design and promotion of a public policy oriented to the national market which, paradoxically, pays higher prices for this fruit than the markets abroad.
The former leader of the National Peasant Confederation said that this situation was reached because there was an institutional neglect and abuse of producers that needed to be rectified. The idea, he said, was not to diagnose a problem that is clear, but to reach an agreement between the state and the federation to put things in order in the short term.
This is a moment that can be also used to elaborate the forest register, which doesn't exist in the state, update and regularize land uses, and rescue forest lands.
Lopez Garcia said that, in parallel, his party had already presented a document in the Congress of the Union to exhort the federal Executive to pay attention to Michoacan and Jalisco, which are the states where there is greater weakness in this product.
Source: quadratin.com.mx