Guadalupe, NL. Buoyed by the jubilation in the northern region, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has shifted his agricultural strategy of recent decades: instead of prioritizing commercial agriculture, he will focus his efforts on promoting self-consumption so that "those who feed us can eat."
Before more than 1,500 agronomists, extension workers, and other agricultural professionals from the north of the country, yesterday at noon, the president kicked off the Self-Consumption Production Days, which aim to achieve food self-sufficiency to combat the new "global calamity" of inflation.
The idea, he said, is for agricultural specialists to support and guide small producers in obtaining basic foodstuffs such as corn, beans, rice, wheat, milk, eggs, meat, and chicken, among others.
"Are we going to work on this?" the President asked the audience gathered at the Nuevo León Institute of Technology; a resounding, "Yess ...
