Mexico’s Peasant Agricultural Movement & National Union of Agricultural Workers deployed throughout the country for the second time in as many weeks, demanding the government set a minimum price on corn and end the destruction of their livelihoods caused by decades of free trade.
The new program will also move to regularize employment conditions for agricultural workers, along them to access social security benefits.
Members of the CNC attended the Listening to the Voices of the Field forum at Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies to address their concerns about the budget directly to legislators
Last week’s strike by agricultural producers against the USMCA and the uncontrolled entry of subsidized grains from the US is part of a fight for Mexican food sovereignty that demands the government’s full attention.
2025 will close with record levels of imports, with most of the grain coming from the US, along with genetically modified yellow corn.
The loss of domestic production translates into greater dependence on the United States.
What’s the point of lowering inflation with cheap imported products that generate unemployed people who have no income to purchase cheap goods?
The Secretary of Agri-Food Development and Rural Development said that the goal is to reach 800 thousand tons annually.
With the USMCA revision, Mexico will be even less self-sufficient in food as the US pushes for more imports and Mexico lacks a substantive policy to support and develop national agricultural production.
The closure of the US to Mexican beef, coupled with the compensatory quota imposed on tomatoes, caused a 4.3% drop in the value of Mexican agricultural exports in the first seven months of 2025.