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Although silver mining brought many Spaniards to Mexico and silver was the largest single export from New Spain, agriculture was extremely important.There were far more people working in agriculture, not only producing subsistence crops for individual households and small-scale producers for local markets, but also commercial agriculture on large estates to supply Spanish cities.
Since the colonial era, the economic history of Mexico has been characterized by resource extraction, agriculture, and a relatively underdeveloped industrial sector. . Economic elites in the colonial period were predominantly Spanish-born, active as transatlantic merchants and mine owners, and diversifying their investments with the landed
A Naturalist in Mexico: Being a Visit to Cuba, Northern Yucatan and Mexico (Public domain ed.). D. Oliphant. p. 21. Evans, Sterling D. (14 January 2013). Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-62288-001-0.
Pages in category "History of agriculture in Mexico" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A milpa in Central America. The corn stalks have been bent and left to dry with cobs in place to indicate the planting of other crops. In agriculture, a milpa is a field for growing food crops and a crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica, especially in the Yucatán Peninsula, in Mexico.
Aztec maize agriculture as depicted in the Florentine Codex. The rich lands of central and southern Mexico were the home to dense, hierarchically organized, settled populations that produced agricultural surpluses, allowing the development of sectors that did not directly cultivate the soil.
This differed from the subsistence agriculture of the dense population of central Mexico's strongly Catholic indigenous and mestizo peasantry. Obregón was the dominant triumvirate member, the leading general in the Constitutionalist Army , who had defeated Pancho Villa in battle.
History of agriculture in Mexico (3 C, 5 P) O. Agricultural organizations based in Mexico (2 C, 2 P) S. Secretaries of agriculture of Mexico (12 P)