Investment in the Mexican countryside depends on infrastructure

To boost investments in the Mexican countryside, Hector Lujan, executive director of the company dedicated to the production and marketing of berries Hortifrut, warned that it is important to continue improving the infrastructure of roads and hydraulic dams. “We must invest in these works, because our crops do not grow in large cities, but in rural areas that are often forgotten areas,” he commented in an interview with MILENIO. He stressed that companies like his have a great positive impact on communities, “but we have to go hand in hand with the development of government works, creating a better environment that attracts investment with the guarantees that are needed to promote in a holistic and complete way, the well-being of the entire population.” He stressed that the phenomenon of the relocation of production chains, known as nearshoring, is something that agriculture has been experiencing since the 1990s, as many come to invest in Mexico to export to high-consumption ...