US EditionMexico Launches Plan to Protect and Strengthen Native Corn Cultivation · Global Voices
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Mexico City, Nov 13 (EFE).- The Government of Mexico presented this Thursday the ‘Maize is the Root’ program, a national strategy that seeks to conserve, produce and market native Mexican maize, in addition to strengthening community agro-food systems and recognizing the historical role of farmers as guardians of biodiversity. https://holanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/rss-efe20c121d-211d-4a49-916f-60e9b85ba0d9-hd-web.
Community agro-food systems will be strengthened with technical support, machinery for collective use for the exchange of knowledge. The aim is to promote the conservation, production, transformation and marketing of native Mexican maize: “To preserve maize and all its varieties, all its breeds, is to preserve Mexico, is to preserve our identity,” said the President. It will be implemented in the 8 regions of the country: in 2026 in the south-ea…
Support for 1.5 million farmers who cultivate native corn: Seed conservation, technical support, and cooperatives for totopos, tortillas, etc. Regeneración, November 13, 2025. […] The entry National Plan for Native Corn: Corn is the Root: Sheinbaum was first published on RegeneraciónMX.
Read time approx.: 1 minutes, 59 secondsPresident Claudia Sheinbaum presented the program "Maize is the Root" at the press conference this Thursday, a comprehensive strategy to conserve, produce and market native maize, with the aim of strengthening about 1.5 million peasant women and peasants who work the milpa in small plots of one or two hectares. María Luisa Albores González, Director General of Food for Welfare, explained that the plan is t…
Punto y Coma MX As part of the presentation of the “Es Maíz es la Root” program, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo showed how the “welfare tortillas” will be delivered, wrapped in a sealed paper that highlights that it is native corn, nixtamalized and with peasant hands. At her morning conference on Thursday, November 13 in Palacio Nacional, Sheinbaum Pardo explained that in the native maize tortileries, with which women will be supported, the p…
Claudia Sheinbaum showed how to deliver the "welfare cakes", made with native maz and wrapped in sealed paper as a guarantee to the Wellness Food program.
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