Corn Producers: Agreement with Government Only Partially Meets Demands
Producers did not agree to formalize the base price of 5,200 pesos offered by the government in this most recent national agricultural strike.
Agriculture
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Grain Producers Reject Government Offer: “It doesn’t cover costs.”
Amigos por el Campo pointed out that Altagracia Gómez as president of one of Mexico’s corn monopolies & a key advisor to President Sheinbaum, might contribute to the government’s unwillingness to resolve the dispute.
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Farmers Hold National Strike, 17 States Face Roadblocks
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.
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Mexico Launches Deforestation-Free Avocado Export Program
The new program will also move to regularize employment conditions for agricultural workers, along them to access social security benefits.
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National Campesino Confederation Anticipates Agriculture Budget Cuts
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
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Campesinos Ride Again
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.
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Mexican Import of White Corn, Used for Dough & Tortillas, Quadruples
2025 will close with record levels of imports, with most of the grain coming from the US, along with genetically modified yellow corn.
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Basic Grains at the Crossroads
The loss of domestic production translates into greater dependence on the United States.
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Agricultural Producers Call for Removing Basic Grains from USMCA, Building Food Sovereignty
What’s the point of lowering inflation with cheap imported products that generate unemployed people who have no income to purchase cheap goods?
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Oaxaca Nears Self-Sufficiency in Corn
The Secretary of Agri-Food Development and Rural Development said that the goal is to reach 800 thousand tons annually.
