Jicama producers in Mexico are affected by no sale

ROSALÍA NIEVES. THE SUN OF SAN JUAN DEL RÍO. There are no buyers interested in acquiring your production. SAN JUAN DEL RÍO, Querétaro. The president of the Union of Organizations of the Countryside of the State of Querétaro (Unoceq), Francisco Javier Perrusquia Nieves announced that the sale of jicama production has collapsed in recent months, thus affecting the producers of the fruit, who have chosen for leaving production in the hectares that were sown to avoid further losses. He referred that between San Juan del Río and Pedro Escobedo 20 hectares of jicama were scheduled and planted for seasonal sale, however, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it did not materialize given the cancellation of Day of the Dead events, dates on which that said product maintains significant demand. Given this, the producers decided to leave the fruit produced in the hectares and as they are commercialized, harvest, with the intention of avoiding economic losses due to the lack of sales, so it is ...