date:Mar 26, 2014
n the national markets, which don't require the high investment to supply them as that imposed by the markets abroad.
Last Wednesday, the fruit was being sold at 30 pesos per kilo (US $2.26 per ton) at the Central Wholesale Market of Monterrey. Meanwhile, in the U.S. markets, the kilo was being sold at an average of US $1.65, 61 cents less than in Monterrey. Monterrey, moreover, is not an isolated case.
The fruit is being traded between 24.4 (US $1.84 in Mexico City) and 27.4 pesos (US $2.02 i