Mexico: They ask to revoke the ban on maguey in Hidalgo to increase its production

The Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Napoleón González Pérez, said that he does not agree with the ban on maguey established in the LXV legislature and asked local deputies to review the law that establishes it, to support producers and to punish those who steal the plant. “I invite the deputies to analyze this law, this specific article (on the ban on maguey) and to give more opportunity to maguey producers, to protect them more, to encourage them and above all to punish well those who steal the leaves, the chinicuil, the mixiote, which do a lot of damage to the maguey, that is true,” he said in an appearance with local deputies as part of the second report of activities of Governor Julio Menchaca Salazar. He indicated that in the last two years the Ministry of Agriculture has delivered more than half a million maguey seedlings to producers, “last week we had a meeting with 32 directors of Agriculture from the municipalities and they are all willing to work and ...