After the meeting they held producers from Jalisco, Michoacán and Guanajuato and the federal government Today, both parties agreed on a price of six thousand 50 pesos per ton of white corn, a 25 percent increase in the cost of grain internationally, placed in central Mexico, announced the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Julio Berdegué.
The measure also includes a credit for white corn producers with an annual interest rate of 8.5 percent, as well as agricultural insurance support. “We are going to open the windows as soon as possible for white corn producers from the three entities that want to register, and the governments of Jalisco, Guanajuato and Michoacán will also publish their operational mechanisms of complementary support to complete the indicated price,” said the official.
Corn producers demanded seven thousand 200 pesos per ton of grain. After they met on October 17 in Mexico City with Secretary Berdegué and other authorities, this morning they once again blocked roads and took over booths in different entities of the country.
In Jaliscoblockades were recorded at kilometer 40 of the Guadalajara Highway – Moreliain addition to concentrations of producers in OcotlanThe Boat, AtotonilcoCut throat and Washers.
Currently, a ton of corn sells between five thousand and five thousand 200 pesos, and Luciano Vivanco, a producer from San Martín Hidalgo, assured this publishing house this morning that that price is not enough to cover production expenses.
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