date:Jun 03, 2016
At the start of the early melon harvest, estimates are that the producers of Laguna de Durango will harvest between 70 and 80 tons of melon per hectare.
Producers expect the early melons will achieve prices of five pesos or more per kilogram before the regular season, when prices could fall to 30 cents per kilo because of different factors, such as the intermediaries and an overproduction of fruit.
Luis Antunez Medina, the former deputy at the ejido La Mina, in Lerdo, said producers obtained t