<p style="text-indent:0px; line-height:12px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;line-height:130%"> Michoacán</span><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">By Eric Anderson<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">4.9.13</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>In recent years, rains, frosts, and high temperatures have reduced strawberry production by as much as 70 percent. In this region, environmental issues have combined with a lack of financial support threatening strawberry production in Michoacán.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">In October of last year, rains fell at fell for almost eight days out of season, completely changing the plants' cycle, which account for 40% of the strawberry production in the Bajio area of Michoacan, explained José Sámano Zamora, a strawberry grower.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/shutterstock_103630562.jpg" alt="images040813" /><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Zamora's inhabitants are also facing economic problems due to the payment of interests higher than 10% to maintain their crops.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">"Most of the crops are funded with credits and these have very heavy interest rates," added the strawberry producer.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>Strawberry producers consider it essential for the Federal and State governments to allocate more of their resources to the field, as most jobs are created by this sector.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href=" http://mimorelia.com/noticias/110719" target="_new">Strawberry Update </a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
