The Government of Mexico’s plan to prohibit imports of transgenic corn as of 2024 would eliminate 42 percent of the national agri-food Gross Domestic Product (GDP), warned Juan Cortina, president of the National Agricultural Council (CNA).
After inaugurating the 2022 Global Agri-Food Forum, the CNA leader pointed out in an interview that what the government intends to do is nonsense, since it will affect jobs in the sector and negatively impact the growth of the national economy .
“It is an ideological and activism issue that I think no longer has space in our country, and more so in a sector that has been growing, that has a dynamism that feeds 125 million Mexicans, we cannot put everything at risk. this for an ideological position,” he said.
Luis Fernando Haro, director of the CNA, explained that the 42 percent reduction in agri-food GDP would be due to the fact that this is the size of the country’s livestock sector, which is everything that has to do with meat production, beef, poultry, pork and by-products such as milk, eggs and other similar products.
[Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Spanish and has been translated and edited for clarity.]
