Is Mexico's Growing Agricultural Industry Threatening Small Farmers? Phillippe Diederich - VOXXI
go to original April 4, 2013

Workers of Veg. Packer de Mexico, a branch of U.S. based Valley Harvesting and Packing Inc., pick-up the lettuces at a field in Comonfort, on the central state of Guanajuato, Mexico. (Associated Press/Guillermo Arias)

Mexico is one of the world’s leading agricultural producers. According to Economy Watch, it ranks first in the production of onions, avocados, lemons and limes, and second in the production of a variety of fruits and chiles. Mexico’s food processing industry is one of the fastest growing areas of foreign investment.

But while half of Mexico’s land area is classified as agricultural, only about 12 percent is being cultivated, mostly because of mountainous terrain and the high cost of irrigation in drier areas. For the most part, Mexico’s agriculture remains mostly a family or community affair of farming beans, corn and chiles in communal or private land. By many accounts, Mexico is doing just fine with its agricultural output, feeding itself and feeding a growing industry that exports to the U.S. and elsewhere.

But now, agriculture is following the path of industrial assembly and manufacturing, as industrial farming takes off in a number of areas in the country. Despite its own large farming industry, Americans are moving in.

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