The agricultural sector of Jalisco endorsed its role as national leader both in the volume of food and in the value of production.
This was confirmed by the Agricultural and Fisheries Information System (SIAP) in the document Agrifood Expectations 2023.
According to the report, the Jalisco agricultural sector accumulated 41,769,369 tons in 2022, with a commercial value of 217,821 million pesos (MDP), well above second place, Michoacán, which reached 114,000. 924 million pesos.
In agricultural production, Jalisco is the great leader in production volume with 36 million 141 thousand 456 tons, followed by Veracruz, with 29 million 967 thousand 747.
In the livestock business, a volume of five million 607 thousand 469 tons was achieved. The second place, Durango, reached two million 28 thousand tons.
The document highlights that the Entity is traditionally at the top of the lists in various products such as milk, pork, chicken, beef and honey.
In terms of aquaculture and fisheries, the production of charal stands out.
Jalisco’s agricultural production stands out
The Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development of the State Government reported that the Jalisco agricultural sector stands out in national livestock and agricultural production.
According to the latest official reports from the Agricultural and Fisheries Information System (SIAP), in the document Agrifood Expectations 2023 in agricultural production, Jalisco is the great leader in production volume with 36 million 141 thousand 456 tons in 2022, followed by Veracruz with 29 million 967 thousand 747 tons.
In the livestock business, a volume of five million 607 thousand 469 tons was achieved; well above second place, Durango, which reached a volume of two million 28 thousand tons.
The diversification of the Jalisco countryside in agricultural and livestock products is the key factor to have national leadership.
Among the agricultural products in which Jalisco has leadership are tamarind (first place with 24,713 tons), chia (first place with 4,810 tons), sugar cane (second with 7.4 million tons), white corn ( second with three million 91 thousand tons), yellow corn (second with 860 thousand tons), tomato (fourth place with 196 thousand tons), green chilies (fourth place with 193 thousand tons), among others.
Although the document does not inform about it, Jalisco’s agriculture also has leading places in important agricultural products, such as tequila agave, raspberry, lime and blueberry, as can be verified in the same SIAP.
In the livestock sector, Jalisco traditionally leads the lists in various products, such as milk (first place), pork (leader with 380 thousand tons), chicken meat (second, with 423 thousand tons), beef beef (second position, with 256,000 tons, very close to the leader Veracruz with 281,000) and honey (third, with 6,000 tons).
In this line, it is worth highlighting the leadership of Jalisco in cow’s milk with two million 836 thousand 450 tons, above Coahuila and Durango, with one million 553 thousand and one million 421 thousand tons, respectively.
Also the case of the egg, a category in which Jalisco has an absolute leadership with a production of 1,668,283 tons, well above the second: Puebla, with 461,000 tons.
Jalisco’s aquaculture and fishing production has a volume of 20,444 tons. In this line, the third place of the Entity in the production of charal stands out, with 483 tons.
According to the report, the Jalisco field accumulated 41,769,369 tons in 2022 with a commercial value of 217,821 million pesos, well above second place: Michoacán, which reached 114,924 million pesos.
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It is the Entity that has the most records in jobs generated
Another relevant data handled by the SIAP indicates that Jalisco is the leading State in employment generated by the agri-food sector. At the end of the fourth quarter of 2022, the entity had 657,000 registered people, against 572,000 in Michoacán.
They see challenges in prices and sustainability
The Jalisco Agricultural Council highlighted the leadership of the State in the sector, but recognizes that there are challenges in various production chains.
Roberto de Alba Macías, president of the Jalisco Agricultural Council, explained that some sectors have seen a boom in international markets, they have been crops that have left a very important economic benefit for those who produce them, but now they face the challenge of falling prices. and in working for sustainability.
Alba highlighted that among the main sectors that have stood out the most in recent years are berries, avocado and agave, and they are precisely the ones that have now seen a drop in prices and environmental problems.
For example, the avocado sector faces the challenge of a drop in prices due to the arrival of more competitors in the market, such as Peru and Chile.
“They have made a saturation in the United States market and that is why the price has fallen in recent months and according to studies in the coming years and there will no longer be profits as there were three to five years ago,” he specified.
The same happens in berries, where Peruvian and Colombian producers have promoted planting in those countries that have made them the great competitors of Jalisco producers in the coming years.
In the case of the tequila agave, there has been a very important collapse for producers.
Last year the price of the plant was quoted at up to 34 pesos and currently it is sold for 20 pesos on average. In addition, the producers of this crop have been affected by intermediaries and hoarders, who sell directly to the tequila companies.
“The crops that have had the greatest push to become number one in Jalisco now have to see how they react and how it hits the producers not having a profitability as it was when they initially bet on it,” he concluded.
In terms of sustainability, the challenge for all these sectors is great since there are complaints about the deforestation they carried out to plant some crops such as avocados and berries.
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