Imported beans in Mexico saturate markets for Sinaloa
Dried Common Bean
Mexico
Published Feb 10, 2022
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MARIA DE JESUS ESTRADA. DEBATE. Sinaloan producers feel displaced by the importation of low-quality beans that force them to sell the local one, which is of better quality, at a loss. SINALOA. Bean producers in Sinaloa face an extremely complicated scenario derived from the high imports of this product, mainly from the United States.
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Gilberto Irazoqui Galaviz, a producer from northern Sinaloa, lamented that the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Agriculture in Mexico have not measured and respected harvest dates, not only in Sinaloa, but also in Nayarit, Zacatecas, Chihuahua and Durango, at that directly affected the excessive import of beans that sought to maintain inventories in the country, but that ended up collapsing the market. "We ask the federal government to be very careful in this aspect of respecting harvest dates and the amounts of import quotas, because that comes to hit producers very hard," he added. In Sinaloa, he said, the producers were confident that this would be the year of the bean growers, but the work that was done was of no use. "What was the surprise for us, that the harvest date has arrived and it turns out that the market is saturated with garbage beans, waste from the United States that is much cheaper than the beans that are of very good quality from Sinaloa." Given that the ...
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