Producers prefer to sell green coconut than to supply pulp market in Colima, Mexico

YENSUNI LÓPEZ ALDAPE. THE COMMENT. COLIMA, Colima. After some coconut pulp producers pointed out that the cococulturists do not supply their market, the president of the Association of Coco Producers, Cecilio Gutiérrez Silva, explained that it is more profitable for the producer to sell the so-called spoon coconut, because It does not make the expense of cutting and moving, since the buyer is responsible for cutting it and removing it from the garden. Gutiérrez Silva acknowledged that by selling spoon coconut they cannot supply pulp producers, who are forced to bring the product mainly from Michoacán and Guerrero. He pointed out that for the coco grower, the price of dry coconut is getting cheaper every day and "that's why pulp producers bring dry coconut from those states." Currently, the green coconut is selling for 8 pesos while the dry coconut was up to 2 pesos and 50 cents. "It went up to 4 pesos per unit, but you are already paying a little more, because here in the ...