The agreement, signed between Sader Secretary Víctor Villalobos and Chinese Ambassador to Mexico Zhang Run, delegates between 40,000 to 50,000 hectares of land to sustainable sugarcane farming techniques
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s domestic grain production has fallen throughout the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), as the production of widely consumed products like corn, sorghum and wheat has dropped off, while Mexico has increased its international grain imports in turn in an effort to keep up with consumer demand. According to the Secretariat of Agriculture
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) Secretary Víctor Villalobos said Friday, March 18, that if the country’s production of yellow corn increases by at least 8 million tons, Mexico will be able to declare itself self-sufficient and stop importing by the end of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) six-year term in 2024. “We
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Despite repeated promises by the administration of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) that the country will be self-sufficient in the production of corn — Mexico’s main grain — by the end of his six-year term, halfway through his sexenio, the nation continues to import more than a third of its maize demands.
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By KELIN DILLON Thanks to a nasty freeze in the north of Mexico at the beginning of the year (which brought a whole lot of other trouble along with it) and a long-lasting countrywide drought, more than 360,000 hectares of Mexico’s crop output were ruined in the first six months of 2021, approximately four times the amount lost in the
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By KYLIE MADRY Do the Cabinet Shuffle While the resignation of Mexico’s Security and Public Protection Secretary Alfonso Durazo made headlines several weeks ago, more cabinet changes are coming, said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). To replace Durazo, AMLO proposed Rosa Icela Rodríguez, who had been appointed to oversee Mexico’s sea ports and merchant shipping in July, during his
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