Despite the adverse factors that have been seen in the fruit industry and that will mainly impact production, it is considered that the mango season will be fair to good. It is expected for this season to match the output of the last season.
Francisco Silva Gomez, president of the Farmers Association of the Baluarte River, said the drought season that the region is currently passing through has affected the dropping stage of the crop, thereby reducing tree production by up to 30%.
If there are rains in the coming weeks, the variety that would benefit from this the most would be Keith, he said, because it would help its growth, which is very important for marketing.
He mentioned that the tree naturally gets rid of the fruit that it can not hold due to water stress, hence after flowering, production is reduced by up to 30%, which is considered normal.
Silva Gomez said the bottleneck for mango producers is marketing, since they still depend on the middlemen to sell their products in both domestic and foreign markets.
He pointed out that most producers are organized as either ejidatarios or private entities, which can be used to knock on doors and seek ways to access loans to help them to become entrepreneurs, and not only producers.
"We have legal status so as to be able to get credit and enable us to have our own packaging, cold stores and to get the opportunity to not just be producers but entrepreneurs," he said.
"The good thing is that we are only 30 days away from the beginning of the rains and we hope they comes early for the mango fruit to develop," said Francisco Silva Gómez, President of the Farmers Association of the Baluarte River.
Source: Noroeste