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Sader highlights Leche para el Bienestar in review of Sheinbaum government achievements

From El Universal · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Mexico’s Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat said welfare programmes reach two out of three farmers, fishers and livestock producers, with a 107 billion peso budget.
  • Officials highlighted Leche para el Bienestar, which serves more than 7 million beneficiaries through 13,500 milk shops and buys over 760 million litres annually.
  • The secretary also reported record production of maize, beans and milk, alongside support programmes for producers and rural communities.

Mexico’s Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat used the review of President Claudia Sheinbaum’s second-year government report to spotlight Leche para el Bienestar and other rural assistance programmes.

At Sheinbaum’s morning news conference in Guadalupe, Zacatecas, Agriculture Secretary Columba López said welfare programmes for the countryside benefit two out of every three livestock producers, fishers and farmers. The programmes have a budget of 107 billion pesos and include 10 schemes with 17 components, she said.

The price of this milk is less than 80% of the price of commercial milk.

· Columba LópezMexico’s agriculture secretary described the subsidised pricing under Leche para el Bienestar.

Leche para el Bienestar has more than 7 million beneficiaries and operates through 13,500 milk shops. The programme collects more than 760 million litres of milk, equivalent to over 2 million litres a day, from more than 3,000 producers. López said the subsidised milk costs less than 80% of commercial milk and described the programme as Mexico’s second-largest company for buying and distributing milk. Investment totals 11.8 billion pesos.

We are proud to say that we are the second most important company in Mexico in the purchase and distribution of milk.

· Columba LópezLópez highlighted the programme’s role in the national milk market.

Other programmes cited included Producción para el Bienestar, with 1.8 million beneficiaries and an 18.2 billion peso budget, and Fertilizantes para el Bienestar, which serves more than 2.1 million people with 16 billion pesos. Bienpesca has 1.564 billion pesos to support more than 192,000 people, each receiving 8,000 pesos annually.

López also cited more than 27,000 Tiendas para el Bienestar shops, a maize and bean collection total exceeding 948,000 tonnes, and more than 327,000 beneficiaries of Maíz es la Raíz. The three programmes together represent more than 14 billion pesos in investment. She said maize production reached 25.41 million tonnes, bean production 1.36 million tonnes and milk production 14.4 billion litres, with each figure increasing from the previous year.

In beans, we have production of 1.36 million tonnes; we increased production by 300,000 tonnes this year, a historic record.

· Columba LópezLópez reported the programme’s stated production result for beans.
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Originally published by El Universal in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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