Traditional crops disappear in the north of Veracruz, Mexico
Mexico
Published Nov 2, 2021
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ALFREDO MÁRQUEZ. THE SUN OF TAMPICO. The high price of fumigants and fertilizers also aggravates the outlook for farmers. VERACRUZ. The so-called traditional crops in the northern zone of Veracruz have disappeared, while others continue to be planted as they resist being lost in oblivion.
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The situation has meant that many peasants are left without activities that earn them income to continue working the land, supporting their families with the work and the fruits that the field produced. Factors such as the dependence on rain on rainfed crops and the absence of irrigated land have affected agricultural producers in this part of the state, who see harvests diminished every year due to the irregularity of the periods of rainfall and the prolonged droughts, causing a lag of more than three decades in this important sector of primary production. The director of Agricultural Development in the municipality of Tampico Alto, Ciro Maya Pulido, considered that these are tired lands, where monocultures have prevailed for decades and there has been no alternation that benefits the land. In addition, the high production costs, with an increasingly competitive market and buyers who only seek to take advantage of the desperation of the peasants to lower prices have caused severe ...
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