Overview
- Federal, state and producer representatives met at the National Palace to evaluate short‑term relief for maize growers.
- Sinaloa expects to start its harvest in the last week of April with about four million tonnes.
- Governor Rubén Rocha said the state is running the numbers on aid and could contribute 900 million pesos.
- Presidential adviser Altagracia Gómez Sierra urged a new ordering of production and sales so farmers know prices at planting.
- One outlet reported a deal to buy 2,856,000 tonnes at $65 per ton with Maseca, Minsa and Harimasa, a claim not yet confirmed by other officials or producers.