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A typical scene in the Chihuahua desert. The Sánchez Navarro ranch (1765–1866) in Mexico was the largest privately owned estate or latifundio in Latin America. At its maximum extent, the Sánchez Navarro family owned more than 67,000 square kilometres (16,500,000 acres) of land, an area almost as large as the Republic of Ireland and larger than the American state of West Virginia.
Although silver mining brought many Spaniards to Mexico and silver was the largest single export from New Spain, agriculture was extremely important.There were far more people working in agriculture, not only producing subsistence crops for individual households and small-scale producers for local markets, but also commercial agriculture on large estates to supply Spanish cities.
Haciendas of Yucatán were agricultural organizations that emerged primarily in the 18th century. They had a late onset in Yucatán compared with the rest of Mexico because of geographical, ecological and economical reasons, particularly the poor quality of the soil and lack of water to irrigate farms.
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Grupo Lala is a Mexican food processing company founded in 1949 in Torreón, Coahuila.The company is headquartered in Gómez Palacio, Durango.Together with its acquisition of Dairy Farmers of America subsidiary National Dairy (of which it owns 87.5%) is one of the largest dairy companies in the world.
Ejido in Cuauhtémoc. An ejido (Spanish pronunciation:, from Latin exitum) is an area of communal land used for agriculture in which community members have usufruct rights rather than ownership rights to land, which in Mexico is held by the Mexican state.
In 2013, NatureSweet purchased the assets of the greenhouse grower, EuroFresh Farms. [8] [9] To increase production in 2016, the company partnered with Ganfer, a greenhouse vegetable growing company in North America. [10] In 2017, it was reported that the company's Cherubs tomatoes were the number one small tomato in the United States. [6]
Jan. 2—The New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department's Cannabis Control Division, which oversees the cannabis industry in the state, announced Tuesday it has revoked the licenses of two ...