Mexico: Agave producers and tequila producers clash in Jalisco over the collapse of prices

Published 2024년 10월 14일

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Agave producers in Jalisco, Mexico, have protested outside the Tequila Regulatory Council over the significant drop in agave prices, which has fallen from 30 to two pesos per kilo. This decline is perceived to be orchestrated by large transnational producers to pressure small producers and potentially displace them. The producers are urgently seeking the council's intervention to establish fair prices and to protect the authenticity of tequila, as they fear the expansion of the product in other countries due to the export of blue agave offshoots. However, the Tequila Regulatory Council has clarified that it lacks the authority to set agave or tequila prices and is solely responsible for overseeing the production process of tequila.

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Producers discontent over low agave prices in Jalisco. Agave producers from the municipalities of Tequila, Arenal, Magdalena, Zacoalco de Torres, Pihuamo, Tepatitlán and Arandas demonstrated outside the facilities of the Tequila Regulatory Council to demand that a fair price be regulated for the main raw material of this alcoholic beverage, agave, since it reached two pesos per kilo. "The price of agave has dropped from 30 to two pesos per kilo, it is a real disgrace," said Julián Rodríguez Parra, president of Grupo Cultural del Agave. According to Julián Rodríguez, this decrease in cost is intended to benefit large transnational producers and put pressure on small producers. "With the low price of agave, the idea they are fostering is that we will all go into economic ruin so that we sell the land to the big companies. They have many properties right now and they are competing unfairly with those who have made them rich," he commented. The protesters are asking the Tequila ...

Source: Milenio