Mexico: Guanajuato produces 12% of the agave nationally; it has more than 7 thousand producers

Guanajuato is positioned as the second state with high agave production at the national level after Jalisco with 12 percent, as indicated by Juana Estrada Rangel, undersecretary of Territorial Planning and Management of Natural Resources of the Smaot. In the entity, 7,636 agave producers have been identified, being a behavior that has increased over the years, emphasizing that hence the importance of being aware of conscious planting by part of these people. Estrada Rangel mentioned that Smaot currently has a total of 62,430 hectares of agave plantations registered among the municipalities of designation of origin, which are Abasolo, Cuerámaro, Huanímaro, Manuel Doblado, Pénjamo, Purísima del Rincón and Romita, in which There is a compatibility surface of 265 thousand 641 hectares, equivalent to 64.67 percent, while in the surface that is not compatible, there are 145 thousand 122 hectares, equivalent to 35.33 percent of the total surface of these 7 ...