According to vendors of fruits and vegetables from the El Mayoreo market, there is a scarcity of the sweetest varieties of pineapple harvested in the country, such as the Hawaiian variety.
Marisela Navarro, one of the few merchants that brings the Hawaiian pineapples from the municipality of Nueva Guinea, in the Autonomous Region of the South Caribbean Coast, said that the pineapples were currently expensive because production of this fruit in that locality was low.
"Production went down because when of the strikes there were, so producers did not want to continue producing because they lost all of their production," said Navarro.
She said producers were taking out the little production they had because sales were low because there were few buyers in the sales positions. She also said that there was pineapple in the capital markets, but that it was mainly the one produced in Ticuantepe, which is of the Creole variety.
Low sales
The merchant also said that they used to receive two loads of pineapples a week, with about 3,000 pineapples in each load, but that they were only receiving about 2,000 pineapples a week now.
Medardo Rodriguez, another vendor of pineapple said that people were not buying this product, despite it being the peak season, which goes from August to October, because of there wasn't much supply due to the country's sociopolitical situation.
Source: qhubo.com.ni