SATELLITE VIEW
SATELLITE VIEW
States to sell into domestic markets here in Mexico. We've been collaborating with them to help source chickpeas here in Sinaloa and offering our support entering into the Mexican market. In turn, it has helped us open up new commercial avenues of our own. Another company we're working on is based in Peru – we're developing a joint brand to enter the Peruvian market selling yellow beans and chickpeas to consumers looking for high quality pulses. It’s new and still a small enterprise, but we’re continuing to look for ways to innovate and find commercial mechanisms to compete with the giants in the pulse industry. How’s the spring/summer pulse crop looking? The majority of Mexico’s beans come from our spring/summer crop – particularly pintos and black beans. Initially, things looked promising because
there was some rain and seeding went well. Unfortunately, over time water became more and more scarce and as basically 98% of the production is rain-fed, the crops were badly affected. Early predictions of a 550-600 KMT crop (which would have been triple the 2023 crop) has turned into between 400-450 KMT. The harvest is ongoing and it is still considerably better than our production numbers from last year, which were a record low. And planting for the autumn/winter crop? Sinaloa is said to bring the large part of bean production for the autumn/ winter (A/W) crop. Now, the A/W crops are the inverse of the spring/summer crops in that 98% of seedings in Sinaloa are irrigated. We have eleven reservoirs, which fulfill our irrigation needs and look after all the different agricultural regions
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