Mexico | National agricultural production can advance without applying glyphosate

National and international agricultural producers, as well as associations, institutions and government authorities that participated in the webinar "Agroecological alternatives to the use of glyphosate in commercial agriculture in Mexico", organized by the Ministry of the Environment, agreed that the prohibition of this herbicide It will favor the food production of our country and will facilitate the transition to healthier production models for the well-being of Mexicans.

Ricardo Ortiz Conde, general director of Comprehensive Management of Materials and Risky Environmental Activities, explained that the agricultural frontier of Mexico covers 24.6 million hectares, that is, 13% of the national territory, which in illustrative terms is equivalent to the surface of Germany, Denmark, Finland and Sweden as a whole.

Source: gob.mx (Automatically translated from Spanish)