Sader: Global increase in demand for strawberries is a great opportunity for Mexico

2000Agro/Editorial The Global demand for berries is constantly growing, due to nutrients that they provide to consumers and as one of the most important in Mexico with a production of 1,150,219 tons in a surface of 42,975 hectares during 2023, highlighted the head of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), Víctor Villalobos Arámbula. To the inaugurate the 14th edition of the Aneberries International Congress, the official federal assured that this production represents an economic opportunity significant for at least 500,000 people in 21 states; and the chain has been consolidated as one of the most equitable, since women are 40 percent percent of the productive force, he noted. In view of producers, industrialists, researchers, national specialists and international and officials from the three levels of government, pointed out that the Strawberry production represented 55.8 percent, blackberries 20.7 percent. percent, raspberry 16.6 percent and blueberry ...