2024-04-24 01:24:48
The Ministry of Agriculture reported that Mexico increased banana exports to Japan by 25% between 2018 and 2022.
In total, our country exported an average equivalent to 281 million dollars, in contrast to the 326 thousand dollars of fruit imports during the period to all the nations where the fruit is sent.
Consumers from the US, Japan and Canada maintain their preference for Mexican bananas; sales to these markets accounted for a share of 74.3, 15.6 and 0.2 percent, respectively.
In this area, they were followed by the two main trading partners in the North American region, where the expansion of the trade agreement came into force on July 1, 2020. Canada, with 4.5 percent, and the United States, with 3.3%.
This production includes the criollo, dominico, giant dwarf, organic giant dwarf, macho, manzano, morado, pear, tabasco, thai and valery varieties, he explained. Chiapas is the main producer of national bananas, contributing 686 thousand tons (28.1 percent) of the total national crop.
Suchiate, with 28.4 percent; Tapachula, with 13.8 percent, and Mazatán, with 10.8 percent, were the Chiapas municipalities that registered the highest production from 2018 to 2022, he reported.
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