Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Trade between Mexico and China are going bananas

Mexico says an upcoming visit by an agriculture industry head to China will set in motion the path to one day gaining market access for bananas.

The head of Mexico’s Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), Jose Calzada Rovirosa, will visit China on a trade mission from Dec. 7-11.

On the trip he also plans to review phytosanitary protocols for exports of milk products, corn and tobacco.

Calzada Rovirosa said Mexico was the twelfth-largest banana exporter in the world, with a growing plantation hectarage in Veracruz, Colima, Nayarit and Jalisco.

He also highlighted . . .

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