Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum and food welfare chief María Luisa Albores detailed the Plan Nacional del Maíz Nativo, framing it around conservation, production, transformation and fairer commercialization.
- The first phase in 2026 will operate in Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guerrero, Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo and Tabasco, covering 437 municipalities and about 677,000 producer families.
- The government targets national expansion by 2030 to reach roughly 1.5 million small producers in 872 municipalities across 29 states.
- Core measures include annual technical training, free fertilizer and the Milpateca model for collective access to appropriate light machinery to reduce reliance on hybrid or imported seeds.
- The plan promotes comunidades milperas with Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro for knowledge transfer and backs cooperatives and community tortillerías to process surplus into origin‑labelled tortillas, tostadas and totopos, emphasizing women’s leadership.