Tomato Update Sinaloa,Mexico

By

Juan Manuel Quintana PhD

AREAS DE PRODUCION

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Mexican tomatoes

• Tomato area in Mexico (-+50,000 has)

• -+2 million mt of tomato/year

• >60 % roma type

• -+10% indoors (roma+round)

• -+8% processing

• Sinaloa (15000has)

• 40% lost by freeze Feb 2011

TYPE

Indoor

09-10

Indoor

10-11 VAR

Round 857 957 100 12% rise

Roma 493 698 205 41% rise

Cherry 0 17 17 constant

Grape 21 61 40 200% rise

Total 1371 1733 362 26% rise

Tomato Indoor area (hectares)

*2011 Estimate.>15% increase /year

Source: Caades (until Jan ) aacounts for -+60% of total.

TYPE

Outdoor

09-10

Outdoor

10-11 Var

Outdoor

11-12*

Determinate round 1430 1315 -115 9% drop

Indeterminate round 200 240 40 20% rise

Determinate roma 2910 2884 -26 constant

Indeterminate roma 1432 1435 3 constant

Cherry 83 57 -25 45% drop

Grape 439 679 240 54% rise

Total 6493 6610 117 2% rise

Fresh Mkt Tomato Outdoor

area (hectares)

*Estimate -+20% reduction this season 2011-12.

Source: Caades.(until january) accounts for -+60 of total

Factors affecting

• Low water availability reducing the total area.

• Crops late in the season affecting insect incidence.

• Frost inducing more indoor.

• Increase of fertilizer costs affecting total area.

• Growers economy.

Main Tomato Indoor Disease

Disease Incidence Ocurrence

Alternaria solani low Jan-April

Fulvia fulvum ( Leaf mold) high Feb-Apr

Botrytis Cinerea (Gray mold) low Feb-Apr

Leveillula taurica (Powdery mildew) medium Feb-Apr

Phytophthora capsici (wilting) low all

Fusarium o. lycopersici (Root rot)) High all

Fusarium Solani (Foot rot) medium all

Fusarium o. radicis (Crown rot) medium all

Pyrenochaeta lycopersici (corky root) medium Feb-Apr

Red denotes increasing importance.

L. taurica Fulvia fulvum

Alternaria solani Oidiun neolicopersicy

Botryris cinerea Penicillium oxalicum

Pythium aphandermatum Pythium aphandermatum

Phytophthora capsici Phytophthora capsici

Fusarium oxysporum f sp lycopersici Fusarium oxysporum f sp lycopersici

Fusarium solani Fusarium solani

Pyrenochaeta lycopersici Pyrenochaeta lycopersici

Disease Incidence Ocurrence

Xanthomonas vesicatoria (Bacterial spot) Medium early

Clavibacter michiganensis (Bacterial canker) High all

Pseudomonas syringae (Bacterial speck) low early

Ralstonia sonalacearum (Bacterial wilt) High all

Pseudomonas corrugata (Necrosis medular) High all

Erwinia carotovora (Bacterial soft rot) low late

Nematode Incidence Timing

Meloidogyne incognita High all

Main Bacterial Disease

Xanthomonas vesicatoria Pseudomonas syringae tomato

Clavibacter michiganensis

Pseudomonas corrugata

Ralstonia solanaceraum

Erwinia carotovora

Meloidogyne incognita

Disease Incidence Ocurrence

Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus (TSWV) high early

Tomato Apex Necrotic Virus (ToANV) high early

TYLCV high early

Tomato Mosaic Virus low all

Cucumber mosaic Virus low all

Main Viral Disease

Area CMV TSWV ToANV TYLCV

South (La cruz,Mazatlan)) high med low high

Central (Culiacan area) med med low high

North (Guasave, Mochis) med high high high

TSWV

ToANV

TYLCV

TMV

CMV

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