Following the detection of an outbreak of giant African snail in Costa Rica, in the community of Curubande in the canton of Liberia in Guanacaste, local authorities declared a National Phytosanitary Emergency.
The objective of this declaration is to prevent the spread of the plague, putting at risk the national agriculture, public health and the environment, informed the State Phytosanitary Service (SFE).
Last year, Central America assigned $784 million to fertilizer imports, 4% more than in 2019, with Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador being the markets that accounted for the increase in regional purchases.
Figures from the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption="fertilizer"].
In the first seven months of 2020, companies in the countries of the region imported fertilizers from Mexico for $27 million, 14% less than what was reported for the same period in 2019, a decrease that can be explained by the decrease in purchases by Guatemalan and Costa Rican companies.
Figures from the Trade Intelligence Unit of CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption="Click to interact with graph"]
Reducing the electricity tariff, repealing the tax reform and creating financial relief regulations are part of the proposals of Nicaraguan producers to guarantee production in the current agricultural cycle.
The new 2020-2021 agricultural cycle is about to begin, and given the current covid-19 pandemic, it is urgent to guarantee optimal operation in all links that make up the country's agrifood chain, said the Nicaraguan Agricultural and Livestock Producers Union (Upanic).
In Nicaragua, businessmen claim that since June last year, 28 properties in different parts of the country are still taken by groups of people related to the Ortega regime.
According to the Union of Agricultural Producers of Nicaragua (Upanic), the 28 properties located in seven departments of the country, together represent 4,615 manzanas.
Because the area of stolen land in Guatemala has grown from about 10,000 hectares in the 1990s to 164,000 in 2018, losses in agricultural production caused by this phenomenon reached nearly $650 million last year.
The Chamber of Agriculture (Camagro) estimates that only in 2018, invasions of private property, mainly agricultural production farms, generated a negative impact equivalent to 0.6% of Gross Domestic Product.
Between the first semester of 2018 and the same period of 2019, the volume sold of fertilizers and agrochemicals fell by 13%, a decrease explained by the political crisis reported since April last year.
Figures estimated by the Association of Formulators and Distributors of Agrochemicals (Anifoda), specify that this is the second year that decreases in sales are reported, because between the first half of 2017 and the same period of 2018, the volume of fertilizer sold fell by 5%, falling from 110 thousand tons to 104 thousand tons.
From March 21st to 23rd in Antigua, Guatemala, more than 150 international buyers will participate in business rounds with agricultural producers in the region.
The AGRITRADE Platform of AGEXPORT invites Guatemalan companies of vegetables, fruits, differentiated products, ornamental plants, flowers and foliage, logistics, inputs and agro-industry to promote their exportable offer in the 19th. Edition of AGRITRADE Expo & Conference 2019, which is being designed as the international business fair specialized in fresh, frozen and ready to eat products.
From January to June of this year, countries in the region imported insecticides, herbicides and fungicides for $343 million, 2% more than in the same period in 2017.
Figures from the information system of the Central American Insecticide, Herbicide and Fungicide Market, from the Trade Intelligence Area of CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption="Click to interact with graphic"]
During the first half of 2018, purchases by countries in the region reached $494 million, 12% more than imports during the same period the previous year.
Figures from the information system of the Central American Fertilizer Market, from the Trade Intelligence Area at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption="Click to interact with graphic"]
In Nicaragua, a decrease in the amount of cultivated land and a decrease in fertilization spending have caused a fall of between 25% and 30% in the sales projected by entrepreneurs in the sector.
According to figures from the Central Bank of Nicaragua, between the first half of 2017 and the same period in 2018, imports of fertilizers and agrochemicals in the country reported a reduction of 14%, falling from $102 million to $88 million.
During the first three months of the year countries in Central America sold $52 million worth of watermelons abroad, which is 20% more than what was exported in the same period in 2017.
Figures from the information system on the Fresh Watermelon Market in Central America, compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData : [GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graph"]
Between February 2016 and March 2018, the average price of palm oil exports from Central America registered an increase of 20%.
Figures from the information system on the Palm Oil Market and its Fractions in Central America, compiled by the Business Intelligence Unit at CentralAmericaData: [GRAFICA caption = "Click to interact with graph"]
In Nicaragua, a company dedicated to the production of passion fruit which planned to invest $20 million in the coming years, reported that last weekend armed groups invaded their land.
The Swiss origin company, Chimaco S.A., reported that the demo facility located at kilometer 124.5 of the highway between Chinandega and León was taken over by armed groups who prevented investors from entering.
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