Small-scale avocado farmers in Mexico are recognized for their contribution to production and export

Published 2021년 1월 11일

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The Mexican government is celebrating the cultural, historical, and nutritional value of avocados through the online event "Our Wealth: The Avocado." The event highlights the importance of small producers, with 25,377 out of 26,980 Michoacán farmers contributing to the export of this fruit, and emphasizes the country's leading role in avocado production. The government is promoting sustainable and inclusive agriculture, with a focus on native and local seeds and the consumption of healthy food. The event also addresses the challenges of biodiversity loss due to commercial monocultures and the need for conservation and utilization of avocado genetic resources.

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The Government of Mexico, through the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), the Coordination of Historical and Cultural Memory of Mexico and the National Lottery, develops virtual events for the revaluation and dissemination of emblematic products of the country, such as corn , beans, chili, vanilla, poinsettia, amaranth, nopal and, this time, avocado. In the online broadcast of the event “Our Wealth: The Avocado”, the Minister of Agriculture, Víctor Villalobos Arámbula, pointed out that the wealth of Mexico is in its people, who, through a constant process of domestication, have safeguarded and selected the native plants that today are elemental in the diet of Mexicans and the world. He indicated that with this commemorative event we vindicate the historical, cultural, nutritional and genetic value of avocados and, especially, of small producers, who sustain most of the export of this fruit. Of 26,980 farmers in Michoacán registered in the Export Plan, 25,377 ...

Source: MXagronoticias