Mexico: Colima remains the main export papaya producer in the country

YENSUNI LÓPEZ ALDAPE. THE COMMENT. COLIMA, Colima. Despite the circumstances that occurred in 2020 in terms of public health and the restrictions in many areas of productive life, Nasario Rodríguez, a papaya producer from Tecomán, mentioned that they only had difficulties in the price and sale the last month and a half of the year, but from the second week of January the market rebounded. He also affirmed that Colima continues to provide at least 50% of the papaya that is going to be exported in the country, although there is currently little production. "That's good, in the market the prices are good, because on average the national sale is about 9 pesos per kilo, and for export 18 dollars a box of 16 kilos, less freight, box and commission, it comes out to 11 pesos per kilo ”, he detailed. Rodríguez Guerra reported that “in the state there are approximately 2 thousand hectares in production, although the surface figure can change constantly because farmers are constantly ...