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For: Real America News Updated 27 Jan 2022, 7: 48 AM EST
Organized crime extortions, especially drug trafficking to lemon growers in Michoacán raised the price to the public.
“They (the criminals) set the price of the lemon, decide whether to cut it or not, ‘sing’ the prices to growers, cutters, packers and carriers; if they sing it to 04 pesos ($1,27 dollars), the price rises with each step, it leaves Michoacán to 50 pesos per kilo ($2,41 dollars for 2.2 pounds), obviously that when it is taken to other states or to Mexico City the price skyrockets”, said a packer.
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The harassment of two cartels in Tierra Caliente even caused dozens of hectares of lemon in Tepalcatepec, Eagle , Good view Tomatlan and Apatzingán were abandoned by the producers.
“They ask (quotas) the cutters, the owners of the hectares, the packers, the transporters, at each stage the price of lemon rises in price to be able to pay the criminals, that is why many decided not to produce” , said lemon trees who preferred to omit their names.
The extortion, they explained, dates back to 1200 with La Familia Michoacana , which continued as Knights Templar and then as Los Viagras.
But in addition, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
competes for extortion ( CJNG), which has operated in Aguililla since the beginning of last year.
Fees for cutters start at $10 to $240 dollars (500 to the 5 thousand pesos), according to the volume of cargo.
At the beginning of the year, the lemon was sold for $3,86 Dollars (80 pesos per kilo), but in the middle of the month it rose to $5,79 Dollars (120 pesos) in supermarkets.
In the Central de Abasto of Mexico City, citrus is around $3,38 or $3,86 Dollars (70 or 80 pesos).
With information from the Reforma Agency
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