Overview
- Federal and state authorities finalized a 950 pesos-per-ton support for Bajío growers, with 800 pesos from the federation and 150 from states, after days of highway blockades.
- Producers in Guanajuato, Jalisco and Michoacán signed minutes and began reopening routes, while groups in Sinaloa and other states rejected the pact and kept or planned new blockades.
- Sinaloa’s Campesinos Unidos announced total tollbooth closures for up to 72 hours starting Friday and warned of possible customs shutdowns next week if no broader agreement is reached.
- SADER and producer leaders set operating rules that extend the support to the region’s full output after an initial cap of 1.4 million tonnes, targeting farmers up to 20 hectares and 200 tonnes per producer.
- The package includes a new market-ordering system to set price references, expanded credit at 8.5% with agro-insurance, and what the president described as industry commitments to pay above international benchmarks, as industry tallied 2.3 billion pesos in blockade losses.