Mexico: Tomatillo and jalapeño pepper crops in Sinaloa start with a good price in the market

MAYRA CASILLAS. DEBATE. GUASAVE, Sinaloa. The president of the Association of Farmers of the Sinaloa Poniente River declared that despite the innumerable complications that the region's vegetable producers had to go through in 2020, it finally seems a good season is coming, where crops such as tomatillo and Sinaloa jalapeño peppers are priced at a good price in the market. Baltazar Aguilasocho Montoya stressed that this would bring an economic benefit for the entire sector, because the tomatillo is currently sold at 35 pesos per kilo, while the jalapeño is at 38, since there is a great consumer demand for them. He indicated that after the hard blow that the vegetable producers had last year, due to the fall in prices, because the tomatillo came to be only one or two pesos per kilo, and it was for that reason that many producers chose for abandoning the cultivation, since it was not profitable, since they still had to bear the costs of cutting it. However, this new season of ...