President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorsaid that, just as it is important energy self-sufficiencyis food production, which is why the Santa María dam is being built in Sinaloa, as well as 274 kilometers of main canals and 1,251 kilometers of distribution canals in that state and in Sonora and Nayarit, with which it will be possible to irrigate more than 100,000 hectares.
When presenting his fourth government report, said that in 2018, the production of corn, beans, rice and wheat was 31.5 million tons; last year it reached 32.3 million tons; 2.3% more; and this year food production will be considerably higher.
“This has been achieved by establishing guaranteed prices, by the free delivery of 830,000 tons of fertilizers, by the Sembrando Vida program and by direct support to producers, especially the smallest ones,” he stressed in the framework of your government report.
Like the peasants, said the president, the fishermen are given a economical support directly.
The agricultural sector, even with the pandemichas not stopped growing. In 2020, production increased by 1.1%; in 2021 by 1.3% and in the first half of this year the increase was 3%, “today I can report that we are self-sufficient in bean production”, he highlighted.
