Shortage of water in dams, drought, rural COVID-19, limit agricultural cycle to 2021 in Mexico: CCI

Published 2021년 1월 18일

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The Independent Campesino Center (CCI) of Mexico warns of upcoming drought and water shortages, expected to be exacerbated by the La Niña climate phenomenon, leading to a reduction in irrigation water by 27.1% from the previous year. This will negatively impact the Autumn-Winter 2020/21 agricultural cycle, potentially increasing the prices of corn and wheat, which are crucial for the Basic Food Basket staples like bread and tortillas. The CCI also criticizes the federal government's inadequate support and care for rural communities during the COVID-19 pandemic and points out the significant price hikes in the Basic Food Basket in 2020, with some products increasing by as much as 43.7%.

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PRESS RELEASE CCI. (CODICS) .- The President of the Independent Campesino Center, José Amadeo Hernández Barajas, warned of drought and water shortages in the country's dams, which added to the accelerated number of farmers killed by COVID-19 will leave a limited agricultural cycle, increase in the price of bread-making wheat and corn, so bread and tortilla will rise within the Basic Food Basket of the Mexican. In the framework of its 57th National Agrarian Congress in which the panorama of Mexico for this year was analyzed and the results are expected to be negative in productive, economic and health matters since "the Covid-19 pandemic has put the countryside in danger" with Thousands of unaccounted deaths, assured that also “a dry year is expected due to the La Niña climate phenomenon: In a meeting with little physical assistance due to health protocols and 28 state leaders linked by digital platform, the CCI leadership He announced that irrigation water will be 27.1% less than ...

Source: Inforural