The Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) together with agroindustries and producers promote the development of agroforestry and agropastoral systems for the sustainable production of wood, resin, livestock, honey, cocoa and soursop, in the south-southeast of Mexico, through of comprehensive models that can be replicated in other regions.
These sustainable systems consist of commercial forest plantations in Tabasco, placing this entity as the leading producer in the field and representing 20 percent of the national total with 1.5 million hectares with forestry potential and more than 54 thousand hectares of commercial plantations. and fast growing.
What are agroforestry systems used for?
On a visit to Tabasco, the head of Sader, Víctor Villalobos, assured that these productive systems allow the soils to be kept alive, with high carbon sequestration and represent a sustainable productive activity.
This comprehensive productive strategy is carried out on medium-sized farms where livestock farming is developed along with the planting of grass, tropical pine, rubber, acacia, and teak trees that produce wood along with fruit trees such as cocoa and soursop.
University of Chiapas guides farmers in the production and use of biofertilizers
The region was also visited by the head of Agriculture of the Institute of Biosciences of the Autonomous University of Chiapas (IBC-UNACH), which has international recognition for the quality of its postgraduate academic programs and its social connection and quality and application of its research and technological development that benefit producers in the region.
Currently, attention is provided to 190 students of the bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology Engineering and the master’s degree in Biotechnology, Sustainable Agriculture and Genetics.
With linkage mechanisms, the IBC-UNACH guides the farmer on topics in the production and use of biofertilizers, biopesticides, tropical crops, biological control of pests and diseases, development of larval diets, microbiology of the fly diet as well as study and management. of parasitoids and bioinformatic studies.
The head of Sader was also in Puerto Chiapas, where he visited the Coffee Freeze-Drying Plant, which is the only one in the country. He then learned about the industrial production processes of the tuna company Procesa.
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There he visited a banana nursery, with a seedling acclimatization model, and toured a garden of cocoa varieties and tropical plantations at Agroindustrias Unidas de México.
On a cocoa farm, Víctor Villalobos joined the tasks of planting cocoa trees and toured the irrigation, fertigation, post-harvest and chocolate production areas. He then lived with students, parents and teachers of the “Francisco Márquez Paniagua” Rural Primary School.
2024-06-23 19:50:30
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