Mango exports from Mexico increased 30% from January to April

OPPORTIMES. Mango exports from Mexico grew at a year-on-year rate of 30.3% from January to April 2021, to 108,700 tons. Regarding their value, these mango exports totaled 127.1 million dollars, an advance of 57.8 percent. According to the FAO, during the Covid-19 pandemic, in many producing countries, delays related to quarantine at ports and borders, as well as extreme shortages of reefer containers and cargo capacity on passenger planes, have slowed down trade, while market closures have interrupted producers' access to distribution points characterized by a relatively high coefficient of local and national labor. As a result, there were many reports of unsold and wasted products, particularly in the case of less marketed and more perishable mangoes and papayas, as well as pineapples. Globally, in the case of the product group consisting of mangoes, mangosteen and guava, the data available from FAO indicates a contraction in exports of 4.9% during the period between January and ...