After responsibly identifying the biggest shortcomings that the Mexican industry faces, pointing out the new challenges, opening up to the replacement of genetic material, advancing in the implementation of better management and learning about the experiences carried out in other countries, producers and industry mexicana reinforced their will to continue growing in a sustained manner and raise the quality of their fruit as an immediate objective to achieve greater competitiveness in the international blueberry market.

There was a consensus to identify the biggest shortcomings that the activity faces, identifying the lack of labor as the first threat, costs are added, affected by the strengthening of the peso against the dollar due to the fact that most of the inputs are in local currency. Also added is the low availability of water for cultivation and, above all, the low yield averages per hectare, among other factors to be overcome.

After a visit to the Fall Creek laboratories and nurseries in Tala, the delegation toured producer fields in the town of Cuisillos, where a 47-hectare project of the Sekoya Pop™ variety is being implemented and will continue with a visit to the city. Guzmán, to see the behavior of different varieties in the Hortifrut fields in Mexico.

During the visit to the extensive facilities of the Nursery, which Fall Creek has maintained since 2005 in the town of Tala, Jalisco, part of the international speakers and specialists who will present at the Guadalajara meeting will participate, led by the director of Blueberries Consulting, Jorge Esquivel .

Along with the opportunities come the challenges and in the case of blueberries they are very varied, because it involves the large-scale production of a delicious but delicate fruit, which demands a lot of attention throughout the chain and requires experience to achieve proper handling. .

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In a scenario in which competing countries considerably lower their production and presence in the market, and in others investments for new projects stop, the Mexican industry offers not only growth and implementation of new projects, expanding cultivation to other areas of the country , but rather offers investors its greatest comparative advantage: being within hours of the largest market in the world.

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A Round Table will kick off the Guadalajara meeting, which in its two days is scheduled to address the most important issues related to the development of the Mexican and international industry, considering that it is an experienced industry that has reached a professional level. and international standard knowledge.