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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.
For the Mexican government, this loss of labor was "a shameful exposure of the failure of the Mexican Revolution to provide economic well-being for many of Mexico's citizens, but it also drained the country of one of its greatest natural resources, a cheap and flexible labor supply." [123] The U.S. and Mexico cooperated closely to stop the flow ...
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 ...
President-elect Donald Trump claims to have had a “productive” conversation with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo a day after she published a scathing open letter to him about ...
Union Pacific Corp said on Wednesday that Ferromex (FXE), the Mexican railroad it interchanges with, has resumed issuing permits for grain shuttle trains at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing at ...
ADM to Acquire GrainCorp Combined company will create enhanced global partner for growers and customers DECATUR, Ill. & SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYS: ADM ...
Ancient Egyptian art depicting a worker filling a grain silo Ancient Roman grain The grain trade is probably nearly as old as grain growing , going back the Neolithic Revolution (around 9,500 BCE). Wherever there is a scarcity of land (e.g. cities), people must bring in food from outside to sustain themselves, either by force or by trade.
Deputy Agriculture Minister Victor Suarez told Reuters Mexico is on track to halve its U.S. imports of yellow corn, used primarily for livestock feed, when the ban comes into effect in 2024 via ...