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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.
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (known – even in English – by its Spanish acronym CIMMYT for Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo) is a non-profit research-for-development organization that develops improved varieties of wheat and maize with the aim of contributing to food security, and innovates agricultural practices to help boost production, prevent ...
Gruma, S.A.B. de C.V., known as Gruma, is a Mexican multinational corn flour (masa) and tortilla manufacturing company headquartered in San Pedro, near Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It is the largest corn flour and tortilla manufacturer in the world. [1] Its brand names include Mission Foods (Misión in Mexico), Maseca, and Guerrero.
Archer Daniels Midland (NYS: ADM) has offered $12.13 per share to take over Australia's GrainCorp. The GrainCorp board is reviewing the proposal, according to a company press release. The proposed ...
U.S. agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland Co. (NYSE: ADM) this morning announced that it has increased its offer for Australian grain grower and marketer GrainCorp from AUS$11.75 (about US$12 ...
Good morning. Shares of U.S. agricultural giant Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. plunged by 24%, the most on record, Monday after a Sunday announcement from the company’s board that CFO and SVP Vikram ...
Under his leadership, Archer Daniels Midland acquired many smaller agricultural companies and expanded into international markets, [29] eventually becoming one of the world's largest agricultural processing companies. [4] [30] During this period, the company's soybean exports increased from $1.5 billion to $7 billion. [4] [31]
The Alhóndiga de Granaditas (Regional Museum of Guanajuato) (public grain exchange) is an old grain storage building in Guanajuato City, Mexico. This historic building was created to replace an old grain exchange near the city's river. The name Alhóndiga translates roughly from both Arabic and Spanish as grain market or warehouse.