“This is the top production zone for jalapenos.” “There are many (producer) families here,” Camargo Mayor Jesus Saenz Gabaldon said earlier this year. Impacted producers from the southern reaches of Chihuahua state disputed the lab information used to halt the shipments, arguing that the FDA’s actions jeopardize a local economy specializing in the production of chile chipotle, the trendy product that’s created from smoking and drying jalapeños. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) detained more than 80 tons of dry Chihuahua chile during the last two years because of concerns arising from chemical applications. Pesticide usage has generated controversies.Īccording to El Heraldo de Chihuahua, the U.S. Some reports indicate pesticide resistance developing among the chile-killing weevils. This story was produced by Frontera NorteSur, a U.S.-Mexico border news service run by the Center for Latin American and Border Studies at New Mexico State University.Ĭhile farming in Chihuahua confronts challenges that include pepper weevil infestations, competition from China as well as Mexican states such as Sinaloa and Zacatecas, compliance with health and sanitary regulations required for export-quality crops, water availability and, above all, climate change.ĭuring the last three years, a state program known as Diapausa has facilitated applications of the insecticide Malathion in places where pepper weevils could hatch insecticides are additionally employed during different stages of chile production and processing. For the harvest, workers are drawn from the Mexican states of Oaxaca, Veracruz, Campeche, Sinaloa and Sonora, as well as Chihuahua, the ag industry spokesman added. Apart from the United States, Chihuahua chile now hits Germany, France and England, he said. 1 producer of jalapeño peppers, but also grows cayenne, chilaca, serrano, guerito, and other chile varieties. Gomez said Chihuahua ranks as Mexico’s No. The export portion of the Chihuahua crop alone dwarfs New Mexico’s entire chile crop. Of the planted acreage in Chihuahua, about two thirds of the chile is destined for domestic plates, while approximately one third (26,000 acres) goes to the tariff-free U.S. Gomez pegged the value of the Chihuahua state crop at approximately $375 million. In glaring contrast, chile production just across the border in the Mexican state of Chihuahua marches forward to the tune of a pepper piper on a massive scale, supplying both the domestic Mexican and foreign export markets.įrancisco Gomez Rodriguez, treasurer of the Chihuahua State Vegetable Sanitary Committee, told El Diario de Chihuahua that some 78,000 acres of chile are under cultivation this year in the northern Mexican border state, or about 10 times the 8,100 acres (7,700 harvested) of peppers sown in New Mexico last year. The chile shown in this photo was grown in the Mimbres Valley in New Mexico. Francisco Gomez Rodriguez, treasurer of the Chihuahua State Vegetable Sanitary Committee, told El Diario de Chihuahua that some 78,000 acres of chile are under cultivation this year in the northern Mexican border state, or about 10 times the 8,100 acres (7,700 harvested) of peppers sown in New Mexico last year.
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