As long as U.S. growers export apples to Mexico at below production costs, Mexican apple growers will continue to put pressure on their government to place tariffs on the imports, Mexican industry leaders say. The state of Chihuahua is Mexico’s main apple-growing region, with about 2,000 growers and 75,000 acres of orchard. Growers are represented by about 20 local grower associations whose presidents make up the board of directors of UNIFRUT (the Regional Agricultural Union of Fruit Growers of Chihuahua). Carlos Chavez, a UNIFRUT board member, told the Good Fruit Grower that before the North American Free Trade Agreement went […]