Government support in Mexican agriculture

Abstract:

Mexico’s extensive agricultural support program is managed by the Mexican Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fishery, and Food (Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca, y Alimentación [SAGARPA]). According to SAGARPA, Mexican agricultural support amounted to 44.7 billion pesos in 2006, increasing to 64.3 billion pesos in 2016 (Figure 1). Under the current administration, Mexico’s total agricultural support budget for 2013–2016 was 263.7 billion pesos,[1] an average of 65.9 billion pesos per year. These agricultural support programs provide subsidies to individuals and companies to support production, postharvest management, marketing, and other activities to modernize Mexico’s agricultural sector and address rural poverty. A key element of Mexico’s agricultural modernization has been investments in crop production. In 2016, the real net value of Mexican crop …

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2018

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