Mexico records cotton harvest losses

THE MORNING OF REYNOSA. With information from MARIANA LÓPEZ. POST. RÍO BRAVO, Tamaulipas. In the final stretch of the cotton harvest, the producers who bet on this crop see the magnitude of the decline caused by atypical rains in their production, which has demoralized the cotton growers. According to the president of the Fondo de Seguramiento Productores Unidos del Noreste, José Luis Hinojosa Conde, finally the excessive and untimely rainfall took its toll on cotton production, causing a decline. According to the also agricultural technician, a production of between 3.5 and 4 tons per hectare was contemplated, but finally the yield was 2 tons per hectare. Hinojosa Conde said that despite this bitter drink for the producers of once called "white gold", the fiber was not stained by the rains, because they fell before the acorn sprouted. It should be noted that the current yield represents, in some cases, up to 50 percent reduction in the expected production. In the northern region ...