Sinaloa is present at the meeting of the “Trinational agricultural agreement” Mexico-EU-Canada in Coahuila, where the head of Sader, Víctor Villalobos Arámbula, and the Secretary of Agriculture of Sinaloa, José Jaime Montes Salas, agreed on the need to work to provide these countries and the world with food healthy and safe. and accessible.

According to the program, representatives of the three countries They will develop an intense program with working meetings during which highly relevant topics related to the agricultural activity of their respective nations will be presented.

The head of the SAyG of Sinaloa and the Mexican Association of Secretaries of Agriculture -AMSDA- is the leader of the Mexican representation in the event which will take place this Tuesday October 19 and Wednesday October 20.

The official opening of tri-national event was in charge of the governor of Coahuila, Miguel Angel Riquelme who offered the best conditions for carry out this international activity which seeks, like its government, to produce more and better agricultural.

Virtually, Victor Villalobos, Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development (SADER) of Mexico, Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food of Canada and Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, delivered their respective messages to the secretaries Agricultural of the three countries.

This Tuesday, Jose Jaime Montes Salas, President of AMSDA and Head of the Mexican Delegation together with José María Fraustro Siller, Municipal President of Saltillo, Coahuila gave the welcome and the opening message of the event, respectively to the representatives of the Mexican, American and Canadian authorities .

According to the programDerek Johnson, Manitoba Agriculture Minister and head of the Canadian delegation and Doug Miyamoto, director of the Wyoming Department of Agriculture, president of the NASDA and head of the American delegation, will make their respective presentations on the subject.

Montes Salas, in his message, called on everyone to aim high for the production of the most basic thing that humans have, which is food, however, it is necessary to resort to scientific tools to achieve this goal and resort to in-depth studies to move towards an agro-productive economy prioritizing life then money.

The chairman of the country’s agricultural secretaries said that in order not to save us a few steps in the weeding on earth, as we did before glyphosates existed, we will be risking the health of our customers.

“We cannot risk health by using toxic products which, although considered safe, have not been proven, because it has been said here what the side effects are as yet undiscovered,” he said. -he declares.

The Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock of Sinaloa He explained that we must move towards agroecological agriculture in line with the 2020-30 agenda, as we are doing in our state.

He clarified that in Sinaloa, Mexico, they are setting up agroecological beacons with people who have spent many years transiting to produce crops or food. no chemical synthesiswhich can be achieved since it is scientifically proven.

“We can insure it because we did it; we can produce food without harmful agrochemicals”

Finally, before the Secretaries of Agriculture of Mexico, United States and CanadaMontes Salas felt that they should direct all actions to continue prioritizing the most fundamental thing of seeking the healthiest food possible for our people.

For his part, the head of SADER, Víctor Villalobos, made a stock count which were carried out between the countries gathered in this trinational meeting, which in addition to the partners

“We are friendly and allied countries that share borders and face environmental, social and economic challenges,” he said.

He said that the North American region has one of the most powerful instruments of world trade because it is the Free Trade Agreement Mexico, United States and Canada which, as a bloc, is one of the main sources of reliable food supply for the whole world due to port location and logistics networks.