AMLO visits Jalisco for self-consumption production campaign

Zapotlanejo, Jalisco.- Adding Jalisco to the production project for self-consumption was the objective with which the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) arrived today in the municipality of Zapotlanejo.The meeting was attended by the governor of the state, Enrique Alfaro, who highlighted Jalisco as the leading state of agricultural production, however he regretted that although it is “a very productive field” he also cataloged it as “a very impoverished field to the marrow”, so he asked AMLO for support for small producers, who make up most of this industry.” 90% of the agricultural production of this state is carried out by small producers, we know that in the past there were abuses and excesses with the management of support that through intermediaries went into the pipe of corruption, but today small producers need support . ” Read more: Five femicides so far in May in JaliscoAs well, he stressed that he will support the national campaign without intermediaries promoted by the federal government, however, he requested AMLO’s help for the support of obtaining non-chemical fertilizers from Jalisco producers. It is not about building a model that has already proven its failure in the past, but we do believe that being able to allocate resources to small producers to be able to access inputs that are essential to continue working, particularly fertilizers, and when I talk about fertilizers, not chemicals […] but Jalisco today is outside the support program in this regard, we want to ask for your support.” AMLO, for his part, clarified that the objective is to face inflation in the country with a campaign of self-consumption, so that what is consumed internally in the country is produced, without generating external debts.” When they squeezed me asking me to apply for loans (during the pandemic), to indebted the country, to do the same as always, borrow money and save those at the top, what was the Fobaproba … we said ‘no!’, we are going to go out and we are going to rescue the people from below, nothing that if it rains hard upstairs, drips down, let them go with that tale to hell.” Before concluding his speech, AMLO acknowledged that Jalisco is the state with the most agricultural production in Mexico and assured that he will expand fertilizer support for free to more states, without having pointed to Jalisco as a beneficiary, apart from Puebla, Tlaxcala, Chiapas, Zacatecas, Nayarit (all governed by Morena) and Oaxaca.Read more: Nancy Gómez case: they release it after linking it to the process in Jalisco”We are going to produce what we consume, that’s why we talk about a campaign, […] and we are going to give some support so that small owners, community members, help us by planting, as they always do… that program has already been expanded… but now we are going to have to expand it also to other states, we are going to see how we do it so that fertilizers are available,” AMLO emphasized. Blood mourns image of the Virgin of Fatima in Zapopan, Jalisco

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