Because Mexico is the third largest Latin American country in terms of area devoted to organic agricultural production, there are multiple opportunities to market inputs for this sector.
Monday, December 21, 2020
In terms of the number of hectares planted with organic crops, Michoacan, Chiapas and Oaxaca are the states that have 68% of the total planted nationally, according to an analysis prepared by Costa Rica's Foreign Trade Promotion Agency (Procomer).
In the case of planted products, there are 60 that are of the fresh organic type, being cherry coffee, avocado, mango, banana and red tomato, the five main ones, according to cultivated area.
Regarding the inputs that are already commercialized, we highlight the repellents and insecticides of organic origin based on high concentrates of garlic extracts and fungicides of biological origin that contain strains of beneficial microorganisms.
Biofertilizers and inoculants formulated based on vesicular-arbolic endomycorrhizae, which facilitate the acquisition and absorption of water, phosphorus and nitrogen by plants, are other types of inputs that have potential for sale in the Mexican market.
Because the Ecuadorian market is highly dependent on imports and its local industry is incipient, there are opportunities for bulk exports and packaging in the South American country.
To enter the market, products can be sold to distribution companies, whether these register the products themselves under their own brand, import in bulk/concentrate, repackage and distribute, or do so under the manufacturer's brand and import and distribute ready-to-retail products (this can be on an exclusive basis), explains a study by the Foreign Trade Promotion Agency (Procomer).
The agricultural chemical union of Guatemala states that the illicit commercialization of fertilizers, insecticides and fungicides, represents about 12% of the local market.
According to reports from the Association of the Agricultural Chemical Guild (Agrequima), between August 2016 and the same month in 2018, a investigation of agrochemical packaging was carried out in the union's collection centers, in which several products were identified which did not possess the minimum quality requirements.
Among the main products demanded by the Caribbean country are pesticides and organic fertilizers, bio-controllers, biological, botanical and general products for non-conventional agriculture.
From the executive summary of Procomer's study of "Pesticides and Fertilizers in the Dominican Republic"
A reduction in crop yields due to the lack of rain is affecting the marketing of these products, in cases such as herbicides, there has been a 40% drop in sales.
Less demand for fertilizers, herbicides and other agrochemicals needed to tend crops is causing an increase in inventories kept by marketers and generating greater downward pressure on the price of such products.
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