Agriculture promotes family productive projects of forage nopal in Mexico's arid zones
Nopal Cactus
Mexico
Published Jul 7, 2021
Tridge summary
SADER PRESS RELEASE. The objective is to strengthen the production units through equipment that allows them to potentiate themselves as a group and integrate into the nopal forage value chain. The development of this crop in an irrigation system will reduce water volumes by up to 50 percent. It is considered to replicate the project in demonstration lots in entities of the Lagunera Region.
Original content
With the aim of generating new companies and innovating in the use and production of the Mexican nopal, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development promotes the development of productive projects of entrepreneurial families in regions of the country that have low humidity. The federal agency, through the National Commission of Arid Zones (Conaza), launched this model that seeks to strengthen production units through the implementation of technological packages that allow them to strengthen and integrate into the value chain of nopal. In the Villanueva municipality, Zacatecas, there are demonstration areas for the development of varieties and the production and use of nopal, whose purpose is to replace alfalfa and forage corn crops with forage nopal, Agriculture reported. The development of this new crop will reduce, up to 50 percent, the volumes of water in the irrigation application. In a second stage, it is considered to replicate the project in demonstration lots in the ...
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