Around 60 farmers dumped ten tons of corn (maiz) outside the offices of the Jalisco Economic Secretariat in Guadalajara Monday.
The farmers are angry at being unable to sell product from the most recent harvest at a fair price because of what they call “excessive imports” from the United States and South Africa.
Around 190,000 tons of corn cultivated in Jalisco remains unsold from the last agricultural cycle, said Jalisco Confederacion Nacional de Campesina (CNC) representative Gabriel Ponce at this week’s protest.
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