MEXICO CITY: According to estimates, Huetamo, exported 5,389 tons of mangoes to the US this season that just ended, an amount that approached the record set in 2004 when Huetamo exported 6,871 tons of mangos to the US market, despite the difficulties they faced in the harvest and marketing in the area of the Balsas.
Carlos Torres Gonzalez, head of the campaign against the fruit fly of the Local Board of Plant Health Altamirano, said that the packing period for Tommy and Haden mango varieties, which are consumed in the United States, concluded with a net production of 2,589 tons. Meanwhile, the La Gigante de Cutzamala Company exported 3,800 tons of mangoes to the US, which together amounts to 5,389 tons of mango exported from the area.
The success of the mango season in the region is due to the alternating period, as production increases every second year. This year’s favourable exports are expected to somehow compensate the losses producers in the region of Balsas had in previous seasons.
The mango was brought into Mexico in colonial times from the Far East, especially from Manila, Philippines, just like the tamarind and other species that found in Mexico a great land to grow after being downloaded from the galleons that crossed the southern seas to the port of Acapulco.
