MEXICO-ORGANIC FARMING.
Mexico is the leading Country in the world as for number of organic farms, and ranks fifth as for yield volumes of this kind of products, according to Ecoalimenta website, that reported data released by Blanca Villarello Landa, secretary-general for Export Marketing and Promotion of Mexican Ministry of Agriculture, Stockbreeding, Rural Development, Fishery and Food.
The surface devoted to organic cultivations represents 2.3 percent of the 21.7 million hectares of cultivated land in Mexico , as reported the U.S. Organic Consumers Associaton (www.organicconsumers.org) and Villarello confirmed at the opening ceremony of Expo Orgánicos exhibition.
As it happens in other Countries such as Spain , most of the Mexican organic yield is exported to developed organic markets (Europe and United States ). Mexico exports 90% of its overall organic production. The most marketed products include coffee, sesame, hibiscus and nopal, while the biggest producing companies are Chiapas , Oaxaca , Querétaro, Guerrero , Tabasco , Sinaloa, Michoacán and Jalisco.
According to the secretary-general, one of the Mexican organic products’ strong points is that they comply with fixed security standards and they are grown in line with environmental preservation methods. The main consuming Countries of organic products include Germany , France , UK , The Netherlands, Switzerland , Sweden , Denmark , Austria and USA , and exports to these Countries generate an economic income of some 70 million euros in Mexico .
