Mexican agricultural production and exports on the rise

The Panorama Agroalimentaria is compiled by SIAP, the Information Service of the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, based on data provided by its experts in the field, as well as satellite and drone images from the satellites. Highlights Some highlights from this year's release include the following: Mexico has 24.6 million hectares of agricultural land, 108.9 million hectares of land for livestock and 125,000 hectares for fish farming. (in comparison: in the Netherlands the total agricultural land use is less than 2 million hectares). Mexico produced almost € 48 billion worth of food in 2019, an increase of about 2% compared to 2018, making it the 11th largest food producer in the world (in this ranking, by the way, the European Union, instead of individual European countries , counted as one producer). 11.9% of the Mexican active labor force is employed in the primary sector (excluding the food processing industry). This is a decrease compared to 2018, when ...