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Europe - horticulture option for products from Mexico
Mexico
Monday 05 May 2008
As the first importer of fruit and vegetables in the world, the European market - where each year are spent 17 thousand 448 million dollars, according to FAO - becomes a good choice for Mexican agricultural products. Mexico exports to the European Union: chickpeas, fresh grapes, blueberries and blackberries, orange juice or frozen concentrate, avocado, onions and chives, lemon, preserved fruits, grapefruit juice, asparagus, garlic, mango and guava and fresh vegetables or frozen. The European market, for example, represents an opportunity for 2 thousand 119 Mexican producers who are dedicated to growing grapes, who in an area of just over 33 thousand hectares, distributed in the states of Sonora, Baja California, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes , obtained 345 thousand tons of fresh fruit per year.
The association of Local Agricultural Producers Table Grape-who contributes 70 percent of the production of table grapes nationally-already exports 90 percent of total production obtained from its partners, which represents an average of 19 million boxes of 9 kilograms each, with what they get an annual income by US$ 250 million. Its sales are destined to the U.S. and Canada, although work already opening up new markets including China, Russia and Germany.
In 2006 were exported to the Netherlands, France, USA, Canada, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Russia and Germany, nearly US$ 9 million of grapefruit produced in the states of Veracruz, Michoacan and Tamaulipas. Mexico's participation in exhibitions such as Fruit Logistics, most important event for the fruit sector and for European producers from other continents. The fairs has succeeded in establishing trade relations beneficial for Mexican producers.
Data from the General Coordination of Trade Promotion and Export Promotion and Support Service Marketing (aserca), indicate that last year 18 producers Mexican states of Veracruz, Michoacan and Puebla, who participated in the exhibition promoting consumption Persian with lemon and seeded; white and red tuna, avocado, mango, grapefruit, blackberry, among others, managed to immediate sales by one million 252 thousand U.S. dollars, while its sales in the short and medium term were 18 and 43 million U.S. dollars respectively.
The association of Local Agricultural Producers Table Grape-who contributes 70 percent of the production of table grapes nationally-already exports 90 percent of total production obtained from its partners, which represents an average of 19 million boxes of 9 kilograms each, with what they get an annual income by US$ 250 million. Its sales are destined to the U.S. and Canada, although work already opening up new markets including China, Russia and Germany.
In 2006 were exported to the Netherlands, France, USA, Canada, Belgium, Italy, Japan, Russia and Germany, nearly US$ 9 million of grapefruit produced in the states of Veracruz, Michoacan and Tamaulipas. Mexico's participation in exhibitions such as Fruit Logistics, most important event for the fruit sector and for European producers from other continents. The fairs has succeeded in establishing trade relations beneficial for Mexican producers.
Data from the General Coordination of Trade Promotion and Export Promotion and Support Service Marketing (aserca), indicate that last year 18 producers Mexican states of Veracruz, Michoacan and Puebla, who participated in the exhibition promoting consumption Persian with lemon and seeded; white and red tuna, avocado, mango, grapefruit, blackberry, among others, managed to immediate sales by one million 252 thousand U.S. dollars, while its sales in the short and medium term were 18 and 43 million U.S. dollars respectively.
