Armería, Mexico's coconut grocers stand out that the price per kilo remains stable

YENSUNI LÓPEZ ALDAPE. THE COMMENT. Martín Padilla Govea, producer of coconut pulp in Armería, stressed that this 2021 is finally having a stable price of 34 pesos per kilo, however, the sector estimates that it could drop to 30 despite the demand. “At the end of the year, the pulp tends to drop again. Hopefully not because we barely stabilize and going down implies a movement on how we are going to buy the coconut, "he said. He stressed that 2021 is the first year that the price is "as it should be", because if the price of pulp is lowered, the price of coconut will also have to drop and that affects producers. The so-called grocery stores, which during the week rested on Thursdays, from this week and until December will do so daily, which reflects that there is demand. Padilla Govea pointed out that due to the shortage of coconut in Colima, the state comes from Tabasco and Guerrero. Of that last state, he said that the quality of the water of has not been so good. “Every 15 days ...