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Mexico was the third largest agricultural export market for U.S. exporters in 2022, with total agricultural exports valued at nearly $28.5 billion. Mexico’s economy grew by 3.1 percent in 2022, returning to near pre-pandemic levels.

In market year (MY) 2023/24, total citrus production in Mexico is expected down slightly by 1.5 percent versus the previous year, driven primarily by a reduction in fresh lime production. While fresh orange production is projected up fractionally, increasingly erratic conditions such as prolonged drought and high temperatures affected the main producing regions in the current year and reduced harvest quality.

Post forecasts marketing year (MY) 2023/24 production at 0.92 million 480-lb bales, a 42 percent decline compared to MY 2022/23 due to higher input costs, drought conditions, power outages, and lack of access to new genetically engineered seed...

The Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture (SAGARPA) published in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register), on October 30, 2014 an announcement declaring Mexico as free of the Mediterranean fruit fly.

The National Committee for the Sustainable Development of Sugarcane (CONADESUCA) published the standard sugar reference price to determine the final cane payment for marketing year (MY) 2014/15.

Apple production in Mexico for marketing year (MY) 2014/15 (August/July) is forecast at 670,000 metric tons (MT), a smaller crop compared to the MY 2013/14 record crop of 860,000 MT.