Mexico: Gradual progress by farmers in the direct marketing of chayote

PRESS RELEASE SADER GOVERNMENT OF JALISCO. The Jalisco product has export potential. PONCITLÁN, Jalisco. There is a gradual advance of organized chayote producers in reducing intermediaries and thereby improving their income. This has been done by an agricultural group from the population of La Zapotera, in Poncitlán, the leading state municipality in the production of this vegetable. In this regard, the leader of the Union of Peasants of La Zapotera, José Luis Flores Núñez, explained that after knocking on doors, his product is currently being sold to buyers at the Mercado de Abastos in Guadalajara at six pesos per kilogram, a price well above what is offered by the collectors who go to their community and to others where the production area is located, which is a corridor of about 30 kilometers that goes from the population of San Juan Tecomatlán to that of Cuitzeo. He emphasized that there are still towns where intermediaries punish the price a lot, since they pay less than one ...