There will be a steep fall in mango production in southern Sinaloa, stated Samuel Valdez Rivera.
Valdez Rivera, a mango producer from the municipality of El Rosario, said they expected to produce 100 thousand tons of fruit this season, while in the previous year they had produced 250 thousand tons.
"We producers are doing poorly in the production of mango. This year the orchards didn't flourish because of climate change, the problem is that there is not much mango fruit," he said.
He said the fruit had a poor quality in the orchards that were not watered. The mango didn't grow to a size that could be exported.
"This mango will be sold to the national market at lower prices," he said.
He said that the state government should protect producers at the point of marketing.
"How? By uniting fruit growers so that we don't depend on the packers, but on a market regulation both in the United States and here," he said.
Valdez Rivera said that if export prices in the United States were high, they should also be high in the national market.
"The problem is that producer cut the fruit when it isn't ripe, export it abroad, and ruin the markets," he said.
He then stressed the importance of a union between producers.
"That's why we need the government to try to unite producers. Last year we wanted to make a union of producers to start fighting to improve prices, but people don't understand that by joining forces we would improve everything, because we would not have to sell everything in a hurry."
Source: northwest.com