| | |  Business News | July 2008 
President Calderón Calls for Major Alliance for Sustainable Development of Countryside
 Presidencia de la República
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| | Record figure of $204 billion pesos achieved for various programs to support agricultural sector. | | |
Mexico City - President Felipe Calderón urged all the actors in the countryside to build an alliance for sustainable rural development, in which each one will assume specific commitments to productivity and transparency in the handling of federal and local resources.
During the closing ceremony of the 25th Ordinary General Assembly of the National Agricultural Council (NAC), the President explained that the aim of this agreement is to create consensuses that would meet the challenges of globalization and guarantee the rapid growth of the countryside with equity and respect for the environment.
The president declared that the highest priority must be given to the countryside, as a result of which the Special Concurrent Program is already in place, constructed as a result of efforts by legislators, which not only includes tasks to support the countryside’s productive activity but social development actions ranging from education and health to roads and works in the countryside.
This instrument, he explained, is helping to achieve record figures for Mexico of $204 billion pesos, which must not only be spent in time, but well spent, without waste and handled responsibly.
President Calderón declared that the underlying solution for the problems of the countryside must include its capitalization and modernization as well as the increase in productivity and provide long-term certainty for the men and women that make their living from the land.
"In the future, my government will continue working while focusing on the agricultural sector, not only to guarantee the supply of foodstuffs for the entire country, but also to guarantee a higher income for those that produce what Mexicans need," he explained.
During the event, the President witnessed the swearing in of the new board of directors of the CNA, the president of which is Juan Carlos Cortés, whom he congratulated and offered to arrange a meeting as soon as possible to analyze pending issues in the Mexican countryside, after acknowledging the administration of outgoing president Jaime Yesaki. |
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