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Mango from Mexico seeks to extend its season and grow more in the United States

Fresh Mango
Mexico
United States
Published Jul 1, 2022

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By: Francisco Seva Rivadulla, international agri-food journalist (Agraria.pe) In order to better understand the current situation of the Mexican mango, we interviewed the president of EMEX (Mexican Mango Exporters Association), Eduardo Castillejos, who highlights the importance of extending the season for Mexican mangoes and growing more in the United States market.

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Regarding this season's Mexican mango campaign, Eduardo Castillejos points out that "this season has been marked mainly by the climate change we have suffered, the last rainy season was scarce and had late rains, we also had low temperatures in December. Currently, we have suffered many strong heats and we feel the drought with the little rain of last season, and together with the strong heat, that means that the soils are with little humidity. Other than that, this has had repercussions in that the production has behaved differently, not like in normal times, which is characterized by each variety, there has been earlier fruit but later there have been pronounced peaks, earlier than normal, but there it has dropped at times when fruit was normally expected or has been expected, there have been ups and downs in production. However, what I can tell you now is that compared to last year we have had ten percent more exports to the United States, in number of boxes, in volume, than ...
Source: Agraria
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