Mexico: Agriculture strengthens producers of the Isthmus region to link them to the development dynamics of the Interoceanic Corridor

Tehuantepec, Mexico, August 22, 2021.- The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Agriculture) and the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT) signed a framework collaboration agreement that will strengthen the development of the agri-food and agro-industrial sector in the agricultural, livestock, fishing and aquaculture activities so that producers are linked to the dynamics promoted by the Program for the Development of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which is a priority project of the Government of Mexico. With the signing of this agreement, the aim is to support "the articulation of the chains and develop their productive, commercialization and value-adding capacities to increase, in a sustainable way, the competitiveness and income-generating capacity of the peasant population and will help in the economic development of the region ", informed the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Víctor Villalobos Arámbula. He pointed out that the ...