Agriculture promotes family productive projects of forage nopal in Mexico's arid zones

Published 2021년 7월 6일

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Mexico is launching a project to promote the development of the nopal crop in regions with low humidity, using technological packages to strengthen production units and integrate them into the nopal value chain. The project, which is being piloted in Zacatecas, aims to replace alfalfa and corn with forage nopal, which uses half the water of irrigation. The project will be expanded to other areas, and will provide technical studies, installation of drip irrigation systems, and preparation of biofertilizer, as well as training for technicians and producers.

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SADER PRESS RELEASE. The objective is to strengthen the production units through equipment that allows them to potentiate themselves as a group and integrate into the nopal forage value chain. The development of this crop in an irrigation system will reduce water volumes by up to 50 percent. It is considered to replicate the project in demonstration lots in entities of the Lagunera Region. With the aim of generating new companies and innovating in the use and production of the Mexican nopal, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development promotes the development of productive projects of entrepreneurial families in regions of the country that have low humidity. The federal agency, through the National Commission of Arid Zones (Conaza), launched this model that seeks to strengthen production units through the implementation of technological packages that allow them to strengthen and integrate into the value chain of nopal. In the Villanueva municipality, Zacatecas, there are ...

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