Watermelon cultivation has been an alternative for producers in Escuinapa Valley, Sinaloa in Mexico

Published 2022년 1월 25일

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The Escuinapa Valley in Sinaloa, Mexico, has become a major hub for watermelon production, with farmers like Alvaro Constantino Botello finding success in this unconventional crop. Despite challenges like leaf burn and plant sickness, the demand for watermelon in both national and international markets has led to profitable returns. Each hectare of watermelon costs about 120,000 pesos to produce, a significant reduction compared to chili production costs. The region's watermelon is exported to the United States after 60-70 days of growth, with prices ranging from 18 pesos to 20 dollars per kilo depending on the package size. Although a few small producers in the valley are embracing watermelon cultivation, it presents a more delicate farming experience due to the plant's susceptibility to leaf burn, requiring regular fumigation.

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MARIA ELENA IBARRA. DEBATE. Unlike traditional crops, watermelon registers good prices and great demand in export markets. ESCUINAPA, Sinaloa. The fertile lands of the Escuinapa Valley, Sinaloa, have allowed the region's producers to innovate in their crops, and bet on the production of watermelon, which has been highly demanded by the export market. Alvaro Constantino Botello, a farmer from Cristo Rey, commented that watermelon cultivation has been an alternative that has allowed them to have diversity in production and to have a good demand in marketing and price. "There are some people who finance us everything to produce watermelon and they themselves take them to their warehouses in the United States," he specified. In October the crops begin and in 60 or 70 days they give the production to be commercialized in the export and national market. "This year there was a very good price, but we did not register a good yield in production because the plant began to get sick and the ...

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