▲ The quality, weight and color of agricultural products is essential for export by US marketers.Photo courtesy El Vigía Ensenada
Anthony Heras
Correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, November 3, 2022, p. 5
Mexicali, BC., The largest ejido in Mexico, called Integral Agrarian Reform, is located in the southern area of Baja California, in the municipality of San Quintín. It has more territory than states like Tlaxcala, Morelos, Colima and Aguascalientes.
With an area of 609,768 hectares, it is located in the El Rosario area, between the Ensenada-Los Cabos transpeninsular highway, Baja California Sur, and the Pacific Ocean. It is made up of 27 communities, including El Rosario, Agua Blanca, El Arenoso and El Descanso; 24 thousand 776 hectares of its surface are commercialized.
Due to its vast extension, it has a diversity of vocations, ranging from fishing cooperatives to mining and ranching, as well as conservation areas.
This agrarian nucleus is experiencing a strong internal conflict over the allocation of plots in the coastal area, since there is an opposition group that demands from the assembly a surface of 300 meters of coastline by 2 kilometers for the pasture area.
In the first decade of this century, the ejido commissioner of Comprehensive Agrarian Reform was made up only of women, who represented the agrarian movement of Baja California, which was personified in the figure of Felipa Velázquez.
The latter, after the feat of the Assault on the Lands in 1937, was sent to the Marías Islands for invading properties that the US company Colorado River Land used. That year, President Lázaro Cárdenas del Río expropriated the land and handed it over to Mexican peasants.
