Mexico: Lime prices to increase again

Lime prices in general and in retail stores are expected to continue to increase. Currently a ton of…

Lime prices in general and in retail stores are expected to continue to increase. Currently a ton of limes costs more than six thousand pesos, which affects the consumer's pocket but gives relief to the producers, who produce more than four thousand hectares in the central area of the entity.

The deputy director of Federal Plant Health, Humberto Vazquez Ramirez, said last year a ton of lime cost less than five thousand pesos, but that this year prices would be better.

The work plan for the Italian lime export cycle 2016-2017 is in progress, so producers are registering their orchards.

As a result there are at least one thousand of the nearly four thousand hectares in production registered, and expectations are that they will all be registered by August this year, when the export season begins.

He also said that ten of the fourteen packing facilities in the area had already registered themselves under the new procedures and that they had sent the documentation to Mexico so that they can issue the registration.

Due to the current high prices, and to assure that the product being exported is one hundred percent from Tamaulipas, and not from other states, the state delegation will channel the fruits from the orchards to Mexico, who will in turn give them directly to the United States Department of Agriculture.