2025 MEXICAN ALLSPICE CROP

 

 

Concerning new crop for Allspice, we were waiting for a good crop during May-June, however when the harvest time was arriving, the weather conditions changed, with a lot of rains and almost 96% of hummidity in August.

The production areas began to have a very high hummidity with cluody conditions, and the absense of sun during some periodos created the perfect conditions for the development of anthracnose.

 

The Colletotrichum spp. fungi cause the disease known as anthracnose, which common symptoms cause dark brown, sunken spots on leaves, stems, flowers, or fruits, leading to tissue death. This disease can cause losses of 20%, 50%, or higher.

During this year, the La Niña phenomenon caused hot conditions to be less extreme, resulting in shorter and/or less frequent hot days, while rainfall from cold fronts,

troughs, and divergence increased in amount and frequency. According to CONAGUA reports (our authority for water and weather conditions), during the months of April to May there was a significant increase in precipitation in Mexico. June was reported as the rainiest month recorded in the country in the last 80 years.

We are almost finishing the collection, and reviewing the production areas, we consider that more of the 50% of the crop is lost, but other people is considering that is more that 70%.

I am sending you some pictures where you can see when the product looked fine during June and beginning July, and the product during August, when many trees began to loose the product because of the anthracnose, that caused the falling of the fruits, that you can see in the picture, that shows more fruits on the floor that on the trees.

Kind regards