MEXICO CITY.-The National Alliance of Small Business Owners (ANPEC) presented its monitoring of prices of the Basic Food Basket (CBA) in the last two months, highlighting that it is on the rise due to insecurity, organized crime and inflation.
In Mexico“road insecurity ends up restricting and cancelling the consumption of agricultural products by generating inflation”, which is negatively affecting the price of Basic Basket products, he highlighted. ANPEC.
Price of the Basic Basket in Mexico
Food inflation continues to rise, resulting the average price of the Basic Food Basket (CBA) at $1,877.46with a variation of 1.02%, increasing its average price by $18.89.
This is indicated by the ANPEC July report on the price variation of the basic food basket of forty-four products from May to June of this year.
The market study was carried out in the 32 states of the Mexican Republic with a random sample at home, outpatient, stratified in more than 200 points of sale at three levels of consumption: high, medium and popular.
States with the most expensive basic basket
The five states with the most expensive CBA were:
- Campeche: 6.48%
- Aguascalientes: 6.24%
- Tamaulipas: 5.09%
- CDMX: 5.02%
- Baja California Norte: 4.80%
For their part, the five states where the most expensive basic basket is recorded in July 2024 are:
- Mexico state: $2, 113.25
- Jalisco: $2,076.00
- Colima: $2,044.00
- Durango: $1,978.50
- San Luis Potosi: $1,960.50
How much does the basic basket cost in Yucatan?
According to the ANPEC report, the basic basket in Yucatan It went from 1,811.10 Mexican pesos in January of this year, to 1,722.50 in June, and In July 2024 it costs 1,785.50.
Basic Basket Products That Increased in Price
According to the study of the alliance of Small Merchants, the products that increased the most in the last month were:
- Avocado 18.75%, which went from $70.18 to $83.34
- Carrot 18.48%, which went from $18.43 to $21.84
- Orange 15.88%, which went from $28.74 to $33.31
- Sugar 4.85%, which went from $35.11 to $36.81
- Tortilla 3.68%, which went from $24.59 to $25.50.
Avocado is one of our most exported agricultural products, highly valued and in demand by the American consumer.
Avocado prices in Mexico made more expensive by organized crime
Recently, the country experienced an important episode related to this fruit, which should not be overlooked, ANPEC highlights.
Criminal gangs intimidated and kidnapped trade inspectors who came from USA to our lands to verify and validate the cultivation and harvest of the so-called “green gold”.
This situation led to the temporary suspension of the import of Mexican avocados to our northern neighbor.
“Our Foreign Ministry had to make significant efforts to lift this trade ban, and within weeks sales to the Americans were re-established and regularized. But this was not without consequences for the agricultural sector and our economy.”
“The price of avocados has increased disproportionately in the local market, increasing by more than 40% in the last two months,” he explained. Cuauhtémoc Riverapresident of ANPEC.
This shows that the scourge of insecurity, which unfortunately tends to become normal today, is a factor that causes higher inflation and ends up impacting the family economy.
The case of avocados is an example of what happens to a greater or lesser extent with other agricultural products that are exposed to the blackmail of the road gangs that charge an illegal toll to guarantee the safe transit of goods on the roads.
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Crime causes inflation in Mexico
All Main Mexican highways suffer from this criminal harassment which begins there and ends on the tables of homes that, faced with the disproportionate increase in prices, end up restricting or cancelling the consumption of these products.
“The next administration must take effective action on this matter and ensure security throughout the logistics of transporting and supplying the country’s agricultural production and other products.”
“Extortion is a despicable practice that, to make matters worse, has spread from the highways to the cities as the collection of protection money has become more widespread in many of the main towns in Mexico,” the organization warns.
“We must prevent these practices from continuing, as they represent a lose-lose situation to the detriment of popular consumption and the national economy,” Rivera said.
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2024-07-17 23:09:54
