Due to budget cuts, Oaxaca in Mexico has lost 200,000 hectares of arable land for corn in two years
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Published Feb 12, 2022
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ALBERTO LOPEZ. THE UNIVERSAL. On February 1, the head of Sedapa appeared before the deputies who are members of the Agricultural Commission of the 65th Oaxacan Legislature and specified that "the budget cuts... significantly affected the countryside" in the state of Oaxaca. JUCHITAN, Oaxaca. Due to budget cuts, which among others affected the Agricultural Development Program, as well as the effects of climate change, the entity lost 200,000 hectares of arable land for corn in the last two years, admits Lino Velázquez Morales, undersecretary of Planning for Development Rural Sustainable of the state Secretariat of Agricultural Development, Fisheries and Aquaculture (Sedapa). “Until 2018, Oaxacan farmers planted 600,000 hectares of corn, but as of 2020 that area began to decrease and now we only cultivate 400,000 hectares, which has caused an increase in the production deficit of that grain. With a deficit of 184,000 tons of corn per year, we do not produce what Oaxacan families ...
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