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The current differential of the lemon (the cost that increases from when it is cut from the tree until it reaches the final consumer) rises to 338%, According to an analysis carried out by the Agricultural Markets Consulting Group (GCMA).
It was explained that while the price to producers was paid in the first days of August at 7.40 pesos per kilo in Michoacan, in the Mexico City It reached 32.42 pesos per kilo in the case of seedless citrus and the variety of fruit with seeds, the price to cutters is 11.50 pesos per kilowhile in the final market it reached up to 34.63 pesos this week.
In reality, the fruit has been hit not only by the collections of organized crime, but mainly by the high inflation of agro-foods that persists in Mexico, as is the case with chili and other fruits and vegetables.
Juan Carlos Anaya He commented as an example that the poblano chili variety went from 57 pesos per kilo in August 2023 to 82 pesos these days, with a significant increase.
Lemon with seeds, according to the consultancy, had reported falling prices a year after the first lemon strike that occurred in August 2023, when the citrus fruit cost 40 pesos per kilo, but these days it was in 34 pesos.
Although it is expected that in the following week, if the strike in Apatzingán and Buenavista, Michoacán is not stopped, “speculators and/or hoarders will make prices skyrocket,” projected the National Alliance of Small Business Owners.
Cuauhtémoc Rivera, a leader of established merchants, said that the reality is that as long as there is impunity for crime, this will continue to happen and nothing will happen.
They (the extortionists) know very well that our hass avocado and the Michoacan seedless lemon are currently the green gold and the yellow gold because we even export it to other countries.
Rivera accused that crime acts as if nothing happened and its ambition has been so great that the quotas they ask for from producers of lemon and other sectors.
The Anpec He estimated that there is still no data to know if the fruit could become more expensive, since there are inventories distributed in various parts of the country.s. Regarding the conflict zone, he said that there is a report that the price of lemon has already gone from 7 pesos to 20 pesos per kilo..
“If the strike is not resolved quickly, it will definitely have an impact on prices, as happened in August last year, when prices skyrocketed and it took several days for the situation to return to normal.”
This newspaper tried to contact several lemon packing companies without success and one producer said they are afraid of reprisals from organized crime.
“It is regrettable that they are being told that they will be given a fine of one million pesos for having stopped work… apparently they were charged one peso for each peso and now four for every two pesos,” Rivera said.
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2024-08-21 12:55:29