Money Agrodinámica more food than National Mexico Sunday, January 21, 2007
Dear Sergio: I'm a farmer who has no title or agricultural engineer or an economist, I am the leader of an organization farmers called National Agrodinámica based in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chih. that maintains a civil resistance to suspend payments to the FEC by the energy Electric agricultural wells. And by all peaceful protests I have been in jail for more than 18 months, I have been convicted of mutiny to 5 years in prison and been acquitted, and even while in jail was approved Measure Energy Field which I authored. Today I am writing to you to give my opinion on what is published in your columns "Checkmate" 15 ("Corn and Market) and 17 January (" Sovereignty of the Corn ") in the newspaper Diario de Juárez.
To start I shall narrate a story of farmers: These were two men who were walking through the desert towards the U.S.. One of them was carrying a bag corn tortillas and water, the other carried a sack full of hundred dollar bills and were destined to cross the border man carrying the bag of tortillas was a farmer that high energy costs had broken into their lands, The man carrying the bag of dollars would also cross the border. After several hours of walking and decided to rest the man who carried the bag of tortillas sat down to eat while the man carrying the money is sitting in his bag of dollars.
spent a good time and watch them eat the man carrying the tortillas, the money man says, "Hey friend, sell me a dozen tortillas, so that I see that I'm good hundred dollars for them. "The man carrying the tortillas replied" No, do not sell any. "The men continued walking and nightfall and decided to stay overnight in one place, and the man in the sack tortillas began to eat again. The money man said "Hey, I have hunger, give you two hundred dollars for a half dozen tortillas." The man who was eating I answer "Do not sell any." Slept early man and the bag of tortillas again eating in front of the man's money very weak you say "Hey, sell me three tortillas, I give you a hundred dollars each." The man who ate said "No, do not sell any. "In the afternoon the desperate money man told the man with the tortillas," Hey, I'm starving, I give you half sack of dollars for a few tortillas. "Man of the tortillas corn, which had never been pitied he replied "Do not sell any." He got up and went his way.
costal The ticket man was left starving in the midst of the money he had. Moral: FOOD worth more than money. The problem of grain production in Mexico, mainly maize, is not as some political parties and nongovernmental organizations peasant leaders and legislators that the fault lies with the Treaty Free Trade Agreement or as they say most economists, financial journalists and columnists can not compete with large tracts of land and the great technology with our business partners, and my fertile fallacies because they are to blame for the lack of production not have the treaty, but the economic policy that has the federal government to the agricultural sector of our country and we can produce what the country needs to eat because we have the material and human resources and the energy.
They have large tracts of land but we have enough oil and natural gas to turn it into diesel, ammonia and power for transfer to the field and raise energy and mass production of corn, I remember that our country has been self-sufficient in maize. On Criticism
you do for the country, or a government seeks self-sufficiency of the products and goods demand service most want to ask you then why does America seeks energy independence by producing ethanol from corn? Why does not think like you claim that if he has too much other goods, because they keep changing for oil that have not? Sergio simple, because the U.S. does not agree to buy oil at any price and they know they produce grain and energy is strategic to economic development and national security of their country and that the Americans are the most open market and not in Mexico that are much more closed and instead get to produce as much as we can from our property consumer to buy what we need to look at whatever price the month of December we bought with the value of two barrels of crude oil third one ton of corn multiplied by eight million tonnes of maize import is paid to the value of 18.4 million barrels of oil now that the maize price rose and oil fell the government says we must buy the same ton of maize but with value of four barrels of crude oil this year will therefore have to buy eight million tonnes of corn we need to cover our deficiencies but now with 32 million barrels of crude oil instead of the 18.4 million barrels of crude . In particular, Mexico will have to pay (either government money or business) "a difference of 544 million dollars or 5.875 billion pesos for the same additional tonnes of maize imported last year.
You see how bad are the decisions of the Calderon who is going the same way that Fox in farming which incidentally apply to your project for economic field, the relaxed view that you wield will give you an example. To finance some reduction in high energy costs (diesel urea and electricity), the government will exercise this year a budget of 3.100 billion pesos, or that it will invest 2.775 billion pesos more for the difference in the cost of the total maize budget could invest to reduce the cost of energy used at home or whether you are very picky and bad economists of this country to apply to our agricultural subsidies, but very good and fast to subsidize farmers we buy grain. As Don Lolo said Simental, an old peasant leader school was not that just goes with his courage and emotional intelligence, "In rural Mexico the federal government invests cents Mexican cigars and therefore no production of grains and there is hunger, but to the countries from which imports the grain throws them with a coal shovel dollars. "
If Mexico and the United States thought that the greater demand for a more niche markets and niche markets higher production and higher production sold sold more development, Mexico would face the challenge of producing more grain to be imported because if we take into account the demand and good price of grain as an opportunity to invest in Mexico (what perhaps energy demand and good price for the same reason it was not what the Americans to invest in corn purchases and establish plants for the production of ethanol?) and the value of those thirty-three million barrels invest more oil to lower the cost of diesel, production of nitrogen fertilizers and fuel oil has lead to the generation of electricity to lower the cost of irrigation and power and strategically inducing energy to the field with these thirty three million barrels would become not only eight million tonnes but more corn thirty million tonnes of wheat, sorghum, vegetables and beans fodder and then Mexican farmers could offer their beans on the market at a competitive price or maybe cheaper than our trading partners that are giants in production and then not only will replace imports with this investment in energy to the field but I'm sure it would slow down the crisis, reactivated the production, generate employment, prevent migration to big cities and abroad, improve the trade balance as relates to the field and our production to make a natural barrier subsidies, export that Americans will put almost all agricultural products exported (In fact, Mexico is going to have to use cheaper energy for agriculture out of the food crisis and the lack of production) and that neither Sergio needs a reform or energy or economic.
Regarding what you think of our natural strategy in the field should be the cultivation and export of vegetables and the resources we get from these products will allow us to import the corn we need to remember that African countries, major producers corn the European economic community sold the idea that it was better than produce vegetables for export to Europe when these African countries stopped planting corn and began to plant vegetables saturated the market, the price dropped significantly, the European community made a trade agreement with the United States where the Europeans accept the phytosanitary regulations of the Americans and the Europeans bought them greater volume of vegetables to the U.S. and Africans were without grain to feed and no currency allegedly obtained in exports of vegetables to buy grain, or as we stayed in the north "without John and no chickens."
You also here in Mexico in the administration of Carlos Salinas from the government which inhibited the production of corn and that we should seek to replace maize production to other crops, what happened? It was a perverse project aimed to enrich themselves some how? the federal government allocated millions of dollars to buy maize from DICONSA CONASUPO. These officials placed the money in the AMERICAN BANK, got certificates of deposit and got loans they grant them the CCI Commodity Credit Corporation, bought the corn, and brought him to Mexico and sold through CONASUPO DICONSA recovered the money, credit and paid the money that the government had leftover DICONSA and its final destination was the Cayman Islands but personal accounts. This direct conversion of post-project crops, they always bring malice or those in power used perversely.
I give my opinions in the hope that we have a staff meeting because I would like through your interviews that we commented on how the costs for energy and agriculture may be the key to stem the crisis and revive the economy, how we can transfer energy to the field of hydrocarbons, the most viable option for our country to support food production. . Your server: Armando Villarreal Martha 045 636 104 8263 Cel House. 01 636 694 0013 E-Mail. Agrodinamica_nacional@hotmail.com
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