Chiapas, world power in cocoa production

ANDRÉS SÁNCHEZ. FOURTH POWER. TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas. Chiapas maintains solid numbers for the future in cocoa production, in which an increase of 76.97 percent is expected for 2030; in which it appears as the second producing entity of the seed. At the national level, each year 28 thousand 607 tons of cocoa are produced, an amount that is contributed mainly by Tabasco, Chiapas and Guerrero by approximately 37 thousand producers. According to data from the Agrifood and Fisheries Information Service (SIAP), in 2019 there was a production of 3,182 tons in 18,475 hectares planted, that is, a yield of .190 tons per hectare. In this 2020, during the perennial cycle, there is a production of 9,118 tons in an area of 17,482 hectares harvested, with a yield of .520 tons per hectare. Cocoa is a food of the Mexican identity: Creole, foreigner and Trinidadian are the main groups in which it is classified and Mexico is a producer of the three, to the point that the consumption of cocoa ...