Mexico: Agriculture declares Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango and Sonora as areas free of cotton plagues

AGRICULTURE PRESS RELEASE (SADER). The measure has a positive impact on the productive sector, which in 2019 planted 208 thousand hectares, with a production value of 10.8 billion pesos. Mexico is the ninth largest cotton producer in the world, with almost one million tons per year, planted in seven states. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development declared Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango and Sonora as a free zone from the main cotton plagues, which directly benefits producers, who can place their merchandise in more and better national and international markets. . Through two agreements published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), the federal agency announced that the entire territory of Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango and Sonora obtain recognition as a free zone of pink cotton worm (Pectinophora gossypiella ), after technicians from the National Service for Agrifood Health, Safety and Quality (Senasica) confirmed the absence of ...