Since 2013 Mexico has achieved significant agricultural export growth, reversing a trade deficit in agricultural products that almost reached $5bn in 2012. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Secretaría de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, SADER), the sector posted a net trade surplus of $5.8bn in 2018, up 10.8% from...
In recent years Mexico has emerged as a successful exporter of non-traditional crops such as avocados, berries and tomatoes. In 2018 during his first term in office, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, better known by his acronym AMLO, made promises to reduce the country’s dependence on grain imports. However, as of mid-2019 the new...
Since 2013 Mexico has achieved significant agricultural export growth, reversing a trade deficit in agricultural products that almost reached $5bn in...
In 2018 Mexico’s economy ranked second in Latin America and 15th in the world in terms of GDP, which totalled $1.22trn, according to the World Bank. In 2019 the newly elected President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has pushed ahead with efforts to meet his pledge to tackle corruption and implement austerity measures within the government, to reduce costs and curb excessive expenditures.
La economía argentina recibió un estímulo muy necesario durante los primeros cinco meses del año a través del sector agrícola, el cual impulsó un aumento significativo de las exportaciones.
In 2017 Colombia, Argentina, Australia, Mexico and Germany joined Chile, Jamaica and Italy in legalising cannabis for medicinal purposes. As one of the world’s newest and fastest-growing industries, the legal medical marijuana market could to reach $146bn by 2025, according to a report by business consulting firm Grand View Research. Colombia...
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