On March 30 they will have to conclude the negotiations of the brewing industry with the producers of malted barley for the spring-summer cycle, in order to establish the harvest contracting and achieve a better agricultural planning and commercial of this productive chain.
To do this, the Secretary of Agriculture will serve as a facilitator with the objective of “doing public-private-social teamwork to achieve greater and better conditions of productivity, transparency in prices and services with a focus on reducing imports, reducing Water footprint from the barley plant to the beer, better soil management, and strengthening productive linkages with the primary activity, informed the minister, Victor Villalobos Arambula.
Given the global tensions over the conflict in Eastern EuropeVillalobos Arámbula proposed to the producers the alternative of making consolidated purchases of fertilizers from suppliers that are attractive and competitive in order to continue guaranteeing the expected yields.
The producers demanded a “floor price” above their production costs, which considers a prosperous profit and that what was agreed upon be equal in all regions of the country.
In this regard, the vice-president councilor of Constellation Brands, Julio Portales Galindoadvanced the creation of a brewing plant in Veracruz and reported that they are currently carrying out experimental planting of malting barley with technology and innovations that allow reducing both the “water footprint” and production costs.
At the same time, he said, they improve productivity in the cultivation of barley and corn, “with the company’s firm conviction and policy of promoting, in the medium term, the extensive cultivation of malting barley and yellow corn and thus contribute to the country’s goals of achieving food self-sufficiency in grains and mitigating imports.”
These meetings seek to guarantee the production, commercialization and economic income of more than 25,000 families of small and medium-scale producers who work in an area of around 235,000 hectares in the Altiplano (gentleman, Tlaxcala, Puebla and Mexico state) and in Durango and Zacatecasmainly.
Mexico ranks 31st in the world scale of countries that produce barley grain used for brewing, which is equivalent to 0.6% of global production.