U.S., Mexican Agriculture Secretaries Meet to Address Shared Priorities

MEXICO City, April 5, 2022 – United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Mexico Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Progress Victor Villalobos fulfilled this 7 days to continue on cooperation on shared priorities like open trade, science-based mostly plan earning, and sustainable and local weather-clever agricultural generation. 

Next their conferences, Vilsack and Villalobos announced that the United States and Mexico have concluded all essential plant well being protocols and agreed to a ultimate take a look at by Mexican officials in April that finalizes expanded entry to the full Mexican market no afterwards than Might 15 for all U.S. desk inventory and chipping potatoes according to the agreed workplan. 

Throughout their engagement, the Secretaries reaffirmed their shared determination to:

• endorsing food protection by facilitating trade and inclusive rural advancement and enabling sustainable productiveness progress
• continuing to assistance rural enhancement by growing market chances for agricultural producers and their solutions
• supporting little producers and new farmers, specially with respect to producing regional and regional markets
• tackling local weather modify by supplying farmers access to applications and technologies that allow them to improve generation whilst reducing their environmental impacts and
• boosting plant and animal well being cooperation to meet up with emerging threats and to encourage food stuff protection.

Two-way trade in meals and agricultural goods concerning the United States and Mexico reached a history $63 billion in 2021 and the powerful relationship concerning the North American neighbors has been even further increased by the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Arrangement.

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