Producers demonstrate in Mexico to demand regulation of the price of wheat

Published 2023년 4월 19일

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Farmers in northern Mexico staged protests in four states, demanding the government's intervention to regulate wheat prices. They allege that large industrialists are not paying fair prices and are seeking a minimum price of 8,000 pesos (about 443 dollars) per ton of wheat due to high production costs and inflation. The farmers also want the government to support them with regulation to level the playing field. They argue that during the pandemic, large companies lowered the price of wheat, contradicting their current argument against it. The protests were backed by primary sector organizations and involved mobilizations, protests, and marches to demand fair prices and government support.

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Mexico City, Apr 19 (EFE).- Farm producers in the north of Mexico held simultaneous demonstrations this Wednesday in four states in the north of the country to demand the intervention of the Mexican authorities in regulating the price of wheat because they accuse the industrialists of not paying them what is fair. The mobilizations of rural producers were called in the states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Sonora, where they have the support of primary sector organizations. In Sonora, the producers asked to protest at the offices of the district headquarters of the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) in San Luis Río Colorado and in Ciudad Obregón. In Sinaloa, the peasants planned to leave the town of El Carrizo for Culiacán, the state capital. And in Baja California, from the Valley of Mexicali to the State Government Palace. In the case of Sonora, Juan Armenta, president of the cotton producers in the entity, stressed that 150 tractors and around ...

Source: Elperiodicodemexico