Jalisco, Mexico - According to SAGARPA, Jalisco, which produced 114,000 tons of mango in 2016 in an estimated 7,947 hectares, increased its production by 10 percent this year.

The delegate of the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA), Javier Guizar Macías, said that this increase in mango production directly benefited the region's fruit producers.

He said that, according to preliminary statistics of the Agricultural Food and Fisheries Information Service (SIAP), last year, the country had produced 1,911,108 tons of mango.

This means, he said, that Mexico is the world's fifth largest producer of the fruit, as one out of every 25 tons of mangos available in the world is of Mexican origin.

Guizar Macias said that the Jalisco produced its "Made in Jalisco" mango in three municipalities: Tomatlan, which has 4,311.34 hectares; Cihuatlan, which has 1,404.50 hectares, and La Huerta, which has 940 hectares. It total, Jalisco has 7,947.84 hectares devoted to mango production.

According to preliminary figures, he said, the value of last year's production amounted to 400 million pesos. "We hope that climate change does not affect the production of the fruit so we can surpass what we achieved last year."

He also said they exported the mango to six countries: the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, France, New Zealand and Spain.

The two main buyers of Mango from Jalisco are Canada and the United States, whose imports exceeded $16.3 million dollars, .08 percent of the total purchases made abroad from Jalisco producers.