Mexico: Jalapeño pepper production plummets 75% in Quintana Roo during 2021

Published 2021년 9월 22일

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Jalapeño pepper farmers in Quintana Roo, Mexico, have seen a 75% decrease in planting this year due to a lack of state support, with only 50 hectares planted compared to 200 in 2020. The result is an expected yield of two tons per hectare, which is 80% of past decade averages. The farmers have created their own economic organizations and are struggling with high production costs, underutilization of mechanized soils, and challenges in obtaining financing due to non-performing loans. Despite these challenges, the harvests are expected to provide some employment in rural communities.

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LUIS ENRIQUE TUZ. FOR THIS! QUINTANA ROO. Jalapeño pepper farmers in Quintana Roo indicated that this year's planting did not have state support, and that it was down 75% compared to 2020. The estimates of jalapeño pepper producers in the border area of Quintana Roo with Campeche are adverse, because this year they lacked support and from 200 hectares that were cultivated in 2020, only 50 were completed; they expect a yield of two tons per hectare, 80 percent of what was had in the past decade, said the representative of the Chileans, Reynaldo Juárez Guzmán. In the Secretariat of Agricultural, Rural and Fisheries Development (Sedarpe) they do not have information on the hectares cultivated in 2021, but they do from 2005 to 2011, when they had an average of two thousand hectares with an average yield of 10 tons for each one. In 2004, 2 thousand 35 hectares were planted, which yielded a production of 10 thousand 420 tons, an atypical year marked by a prolonged drought that ...

Source: Inforural