Mexican Ministry of Agriculture recognizes work of small-scale avocado farmers
Mexican Ministry of Agriculture recognizes work of small-scale avocado farmers Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture has lauded the nation’s small-scale garden growers. During a virtual event named ‘Our wealth: the avocado’, Víctor Villalobos Arámbula stated that of the 26,980 farmers in Michoacán registered in the Export Plan, 25,377 cultivate in orchards smaller than 10 hectares, and they are the ones who sustain the majority of avocado exports. The Secretary pointed out that the wealth of Mexico is in its people, who through a constant process of domestication, have safeguarded and...