Peasants in southern Mexico organize and create seed banks to defend corn from climate and GMOs

Oaxaca (Mexico), Oct 2 (EFE).- Indigenous farmers from southern Mexico organize and create seed banks to defend traditional corn from the climate crisis, in the midst of the Mexican Government's fight against genetically modified grains, which come from mainly from the United States. In Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, Bernardino Cruz, 48 years old, planted two hectares of corn when the rainy season began, which predicted a good harvest, but for a month the rainfall has stopped. For this reason, he changed his sowing method from rainfed to irrigation so as not to lose the production of corn from the native species “belatove”, an ear about 10 centimeters long composed of mostly white grains. Half of this harvest is allocated for self-consumption and the rest for local sale in Santa Ana Zegache, an indigenous Zapotec municipality in the central region of Oaxaca, where more than 1,200 producers dedicated to corn, beans and squash subsist. "Without corn there is no life because it is what ...