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.
Producers did not agree to formalize the base price of 5,200 pesos offered by the government in this most recent national agricultural strike.
This reverses the prediction only a few months ago that 2025 would be a bad year for domestic white corn production as a result of drought and require significant imports.
In response to AMLO’s ban, the US filed a suit to force Mexico to accept US GMO corn. Will Mexico, like China with the Opium War, be forced to import a product they judge unsafe for their people and harmful to their native agriculture?
Mexico demonstrated that the cultivation and consumption of genetically modified corn have different negative effects on health, native corn and the environment.