Mexico: Cranberry, papaya, pineapple and blackberry, strategic fruits in Colima

Mexico: Cranberry, papaya, pineapple and blackberry, strategic fruits in Colima

09/01/2018

In the context of the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and recognizing the authorities responsible for the agri-food sector that since 50 years ago there was no "strategic planning" that defined with precision and a territorial approach productive, vocation of crops, social capital, according to the new trends of supply and demand of the markets. The Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), has designed a new strategy called National Agricultural Planning 2017-2030, with which there will be a better reflection on who to sell and buy agri-food products. That is, public policies and programs will be implemented to reorient the agri-food sector in its adaptation to the demand of national and international markets.

Objectives of the National Agricultural Planning 2017-2030

The objective of this government initiative is to further diversify the markets so as not to be so dependent on a single commercial block (ie, the United States and Canada), seeking to sell more in Asia, Arab countries and the European Union, to trade with Argentina and Brazil, making alliances with Chile and Central America.

With the purpose of consolidating the primary sector as one of the main engines of the national economy, a scheme is intended for 12 years where it is projected to increase agricultural production 27.8%, so strategic programs will be promoted, with a long-term vision 2017- 2030, where it is expected to maximize the production of 38 crops.

The National Agricultural Planning 2017-2030, groups the basic strategic crops: wheat, crystalline grain and flour; white and yellow corn; coffee, sugarcane, beans, fodder oats and cocoa: oleaginous (canola, sunflower, safflower and soybean), as well as (chickpea sorghum), rice and apple.

In addition to the crops with market potential: agave (tequila and mezcalero); avocado, cotton; bioenergetics (castor bean, jatropha, sweet sorghum); barley, peppers and peppers; citrus fruits (lemon, orange, grapefruit); Strawberry; berries (cranberry, raspberry, blackberry); tomato, pecan nut, oil palm, coconut palm, papaya, pineapple, grape and vanilla.

It will be through the implementation of actions and projects that propitiate optimum yields in strategic regions according to their agroclimatic and market conditions, in order to pass from the 126.3 millions of tons of agricultural products to 174.5 million tons.

It is estimated that for this year 2018, it will be possible to reach 142.8 million tons (4.5% more) and in the 2024, 157.9 million (15.6%). In relation to the value of the production, it is sought to overcome what has been achieved in 2016, with a record of 366.6 one billion pesos; in 2018, 391.7 mmdp is expected; 2024, 443.2, mmdp and in the 2030, more than 500.3 one billion pesos.

The National Agricultural Planning 2017-2030, is very important according to the secretary of the SAGARPA, José Calzada Rovirosa, "because it tells us what to produce, and where to produce and who should produce, what is required to produce, what are the incentives , what are the new technologies that are in vogue to be able to produce better and not only give more food to Mexico and the world, but above all, give more income to the producer ". (JCR Presentation "SAGARPA launches the National Agricultural Planning strategy 2017-2030", always 88P., 30 / 08 / 2017).

One more objective that is to be achieved is to align the Mexican agricultural policy with the 2030 Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), to fulfill the commitment made by our country to the UN.

In this sense, the National Agricultural Planning 2017-2030, provides a dynamic route of action, objectives and goals on which the public, private, academic and research sectors must move to achieve sustained and sustainable growth of the Mexican countryside.

Strategic fruits in Colima

In the National Agricultural Planning strategy 2017-2030, SAGARPA considered in its document only 4 crops as strategic priorities, which are: blueberry, papaya, pineapple and blackberry.

Now, if these crops in the last fifteen years have contributed to reconvert the colimase field and reaching in the year 2016, significant figures in the national scope, as it is the cultivation of the papaya that by the value of the production Colima occupies the 2 ° national place (18% of the total value of production); they are followed by the blueberry 4 ° place (7.8%); pineapple 4 ° place (4.8%), and the blackberry 3er., national place (0.6%). (Table 1)

However, in the 1,2,3 and 4 graphs, the positioning of the strategic fruits of Colima in the Mexican agri-food sector 2016 is observed, because of their value in production, they show real figures of the supply of said crops, but they also show the purpose for achieve the goal stipulated in the PED-2016-2021, "Meta 4. Get the first place in exports in three agricultural products "(sic). (State Development Plan-Colima 2016-2021, page 17)

As regards exports, Colima is a state with agricultural vocation and a large part of the products exported are agri-food, they only receive the first added value called "beneficiated", all for the short life of the products, limited capacity of the state productive plant and lack of commercial logistics infrastructure.