Coffee production in Mexico

The coffee production in Mexico is the world's 8th largest with 252,000 tonnes produced in 2009,[1] and is mainly concentrated to the south central to southern regions of the country.

[5] In addition, during the 1970s and 1980s, coffee production played a significant role in the national economy and became a major source of income for more than two million people in Mexico.

As the result, the three main states, Chiapas, Veracruz and Oaxaca, contributed 73% of the total amount of agriculture land for coffee production.

[5] In 1989 INMECAFE disintegrated after president Carlos Salinas de Gortari declared that the Mexican government would give up control of its coffee market while they respond to the World Bank and other international financial institutions’ construction adjustments.

[4] This policy change left farmers without protection from the highly volatile international coffee price and had devastating effects especially for small-scale producers.

[4] As a consequence of having lower income, 71% of coffee producers in Mexico ceased to use fertilizers, 40% of them reduced the maintenance to weeding, and 75% of them stopped investing in pest prevention.