According to Lino Velasquez Morales, a delegate of SAGARPA, at the end of the export season, the state of Oaxaca recorded that it had shipped nearly 32,000 tons of mangos to the United States, Canada, and, in a much lower quantity, to Europe.
Velasquez Morales spoke during a meeting with members of the State Plant Health Committee of Oaxaca and said that, compared to 2016, there had been an increase in the production's value and income, as well as a decrease in losses. He also stated that producers had obtained a higher yield and better quality fruit.
This is the result of the phytosanitary measures implemented by SAGARPA through the National Campaign Against Fruit Flies, which decreased the plague and allowed producers to have a good harvest and a quality suitable for export, said Engineer Lino Velázquez Morales.
He also stressed that, according to the SIAP, in 2016 the state recorded a production of 146,000 tons of mangos, which places Oaxaca as the sixth biggest producer of mango in the country.
In this sense, the president of the local board of Mango Producers of Tapanatepec and Chahuites Oaxaca, Luis Eduardo de los Santos Urbieta, said that this year the 12 packers had gathered and exported a significant amount of Tommy, Ataulfo, and Gold mango varieties.
He also stressed that the main production areas were the eastern part of the isthmus and the coast, and that there were also mango crops in the region of Cañada and the basin of the Papaloapan.
Source: rioaxaca.com