They promote paradigm shift for the countryside of Mexico

Culiacán, Sinaloa.- Given the high cost of agricultural inputs, one of the options that the federal and Sinaloa governments are studying is to promote that producers can produce their own inputs, such as seed and fertilizers under an environmentally friendly scheme through which they could have savings of up to 30 percent. Víctor Suárez Carrera, Undersecretary of Food Self-Sufficiency, of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the federal government, was visiting Sinaloa where he witnessed the progress made by a producer of the Costa Rican syndicate who, for the third consecutive year, is producing his own seeds at a cost of approximately one thousand 500 pesos of investment per hectare in addition to the fact that he is also producing his own nutrients of organic origin and, after the results obtained, the procedures will begin so that their properties are certified as organic, which will represent an additional ingredient for the benefit of the producer at the time of marketing their harvest. The federal official said that, in the world, there has been an increase in inputs for agriculture, which is why it is urgent to change the model of food production that decapitalizes the small and medium producer and causes profitability to be lost cycle with cycle To counteract this and prevent the producer from continuing to have problems, “An alternative of local seed production, production of organic fertilizers and a model that leaves behind the so-called green revolution model is being promoted to go to a model of sustainable agriculture and whose main purpose is the restoration of health and the chemical and biological restoration of soils and the progressive gradual elimination of agrotoxins starting with glyphosate, which is a highly carcinogenic herbicide.” With these practices, said the federal official, not only is it intended to support the economy of producers by having the cheapest inputs and therefore with greater possibilities to improve their profits, but also it is possible to prevent contaminated food from reaching the table that deteriorates, not only the health of consumers, but they pollute the environment and degrade the productivity of the soils, so we have to work on a model that guarantees the production of healthy food and efficiency in the soils for the benefit of the next generations. Read more: The entry of potatoes from the United States to Mexico is worrisome: AARFSJosé Jaime Montes Salas, Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock of the state government, said that the model implemented as a pilot plan in the syndicate of Costa Rica, is already being replicated in the municipalities of Angostura, Navolato, Ahome and El Fuerte with good results and is in the process of being managed to implement it on a large scale in the entity. Woman wouldn’t let her boyfriend be attended until he gave her the key

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