Farmers innovate to harvest vegetables in the desert of northern Mexico

Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), July 14 (EFE).- In the midst of the worst drought in recent years, farmers on the northern border of Mexico harvest thousands of tons of vegetables in the desert of the state of Chihuahua by implementing Israeli and micro-spray techniques . Farmers grow zucchini, chili peppers, cilantro, onions and tomatoes with export quality that are sent to Japan and other Asian countries. Javier Meléndez Cardona is a producer in Samalayuca, a section of the municipality of Ciudad Juárez in the extreme south, located between three dune banks of the Chihuahua Desert and a small mountain range, also desert. Before they produced beans, corn and cotton, but they were looking for alternatives and converted the crops to vegetables, mainly zucchini, according to what he told EFE. He added that the agro-ecological conditions of the desert favor the production of zucchini, because the warmer the weather and the clearer the sky, the greater the production and the result is a good ...