To help improve economic conditions and quality of life of rural families in the Mixteca Poblana, the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) is promoting the diversification of the region through the production project prickly-pear.
Alberto Jimenez Merino, Delegate in Puebla SAGARPA, they noted that the producers of nopal and tuna obtained six times more income per hectare per year than those who produce corn and beans in an equal area of land, making productive projects like this one are strongly driven by the president, Enrique Peña Nieto.
By participating in the Demonstration Day and technological exchange, organized in Puente Marqués, one of the six communities belonging to the municipality of Tehuitzingo and contemplated in this project, the delegate of SAGARPA accompanied by Omar Carpio Flores, Representative Non Governmental System Product Nopal- Tuna, stressed the importance of technological trainings are conducted because «it is in this way that we can learn new ways of production and marketing.»
He said following the instructions of President Enrique Peña Nieto and the holder of SAGARPA, Enrique Martínez y Martínez, these tours strengthen the guidance and direct contact with the producers, allowing boost production through policies that seek to always be «with feet on the ground. »
In La Noria Hidalgo, an official of the Government of the Republic stressed that «the planting of these crops is allowing slow migration in the region and some of the people who had been starting to return to the vision of an opportunity to generate wealth in the state. »
Also in Santa Cruz Tejalpa a demonstration of drip irrigation was performed and with representatives of farmers in the area, the commitment technify 30 hectares of 6 villages of the town of Tehuitzingo belonging to the project, was generated which they used only for organic production.
Meanwhile, Carpio Flores stressed that the project of establishing nopaleras for the production of tuna in the region began last year and said that «currently, production and prickly pear cactus in the state produce employment for approximately 2000 families, generating around 100 million pesos, with an output of 80,000 tons for export and marketing across the country economic benefit «.
Note that according to the Service Agrifood and Fisheries Information (SIAP), Puebla ranks first in yield per hectare and third in production volume nationwide, only after the states of Mexico and Zacatecas.
