Costa Rican pineapple producers are opposed to the temporary ban imposed by Senasa on tearing down plants on farms in three locations in the northern zone, arguing that it does not allow for replanting and will affect the 2018 harvest.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
The National Animal Health Service (Senasa) argued that it took the decision in order to prevent the spread of stable fly disease, but pineapple producers in Pital and Cutris, Sal Carlos, and San Rafael, in Rio Cuarto de Alajuela, have questioned the measure and say that it will generate significant losses in the current harvest.
Nacion.com reports that "...According to the pineapple producers, the ban on demolitions does not allow for re-planting or sowing the plantation again and that will reduce the 2018 crop by an estimated 9.5 million boxes of 12 kilos, which represents about $52 million.In addition, in 2019 the calculated reduction in production would be of 4.5 million boxes of 12 kilos, with a value of $25 million, said Abel Chaves, president of the National Chamber of Producers and Exporters of Pineapple (Canapep).
"...As a result of this dispute a joint commission was created that will be in charge of inspecting the crops and eventually adjusting the measure ...According to Chaves, "... the Senasa measure has a geographic orientation only, since it was not based on an inspection of the farms as it should have been.'We are agreed on punishing those who made the mistake; not all producers."
Setena has ordered the partial paralysis of pineapple production activities in three farms in the northern zone due to environmental damage, such as the presence of sediments in rivers, ravines and wetlands.
The National Environmental Technical Secretariat (Setena) reported that the farms are Cultivo de Piña La Guaria, Cultivo de Piña La Azucena, and Cultivo de Piña Oficinas Administrativas y Taller de Mantenimiento el Concho.
There is still an insatiable demand for growing pineapples, which has meant that Costa Rica’s export volume has been multiplied by 4 in the last 10 years.
An article in Elfinancierocr.com quotes Abel Chaves, president of the National Chamber of Pineapple Producers and Exporters (Canapep) who says: "If the market is demanding more pineapples, then we will plant more pineapples".
Environmental Regulations and Social Practice have been issued by the National Chamber of Pineapple Producers and Exporters of Costa Rica.
The Social and Environmental Management System for Sustainable Production of Pineapple (SG-PSP) is the standard of good environmental and social practices, to carry out the Environmental Responsibility Commitment, established by Canapep on June 5, 2008.
Costa Rica's success as a producer of the MD2 pineapple variety, is attempting to be copied by countries like Panama, Colombia and Ghana.
Costa Rica is the world's leading supplier of pineapple, a position it achieved in particular because of the quality and sweetness of the MD2 variety, characteristic due not only to technological equipment employed and processes that have been internationally certified, but also because of the special conditions of the soil and climate.
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