The majority of the mango packing facilities in the northern area suspended their cutting, packing, and exporting activities to the United States because of the high supply of product there is at the moment in the different terminal markets.
Daniel Ibarra Lugo, the president of the Mango Exporters Association of the Area Free of Fruit Flies, said they had taken this measure to prevent producers from having losses in the market.
He also said they had been forced to do this because there was still a high production of fruit in the southern part of the state which was causing a saturation of mango in the US.
"The truth is that the sector is facing a critical situation. It's so critical that the packaging has had to stop because the market is extremely saturated," he said.
He said there was a real chaos in commercialization because there still was a lot of production in the southern zone of Sinaloa.
He also said that even though exports had decreased as a result of the rains in recent days, the packing facilities in the northern area had stopped their activities because there was already a lot of product being shipped to the US.
Market expectations
Exports will resume once the conditions improve again for the placement of the fruit, he said, adding that, since the packing facilities had suspended activities, producers of the fruit in the different productive zones had also suspended their harvest.
At this point, he said, the activity in general had already reached a general advance of nearly 50 percent. The leader of the mango producers in the north of the state said that, prior to the stoppage, they estimated the harvest and export season would end in the first days of September, but that they now expected it would last until the end of the second half of September.
Source: debate.com.mx