Mexico: Producers of habanero pepper from Yucatán snub global recognition

Published 2021년 7월 9일

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The article highlights the failure of Yucatan producers to capitalize on the denomination of origin of the habanero pepper, a high-value product with potential international market access and increased profitability. Since 2010, the Peninsula region, including Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo, has had a designation of origin for the habanero pepper, the first regulated chili in Mexico. This designation could enhance the pepper's global recognition and value due to its unique characteristics and health benefits. However, a lack of interest among farmers and issues such as bad weather and the pandemic have hindered the cultivation of the pepper, leading some producers to seek alternative sources of income. The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property is responsible for issuing and managing appellations of origin in Mexico, providing access to international markets and ensuring product authenticity.

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DARCET SALAZAR. With information from EFRAÍN VALENCIA. FOR THIS! According to CEPROCH, producers miss the denomination of origin of the habanero pepper. Merida Yucatan. Producers of the State have been wasting for 11 years the denomination of origin of the habanero pepper that represents the state worldwide, whose added value would make international projects advance by leaps and bounds, according to the Council of Producers of Chile Habanero. The appellation of origin is a quality seal that refers to the indication of origin of a product, whose quality or characteristics are due, fundamentally or exclusively, to a particular geographical environment, with the natural and human factors inherent to it, and whose Production phases take place entirely in the defined geographical area. In an interview with POR ESTO !, Mario Alfredo Ríos Urcelay, president of the Council of Producers of Chile Habanero (CEPROCH), pointed out that Yucatán is wasting the unique characteristics and special ...

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