{"id":2473,"date":"2018-11-14T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2018-11-14T05:00:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T05:00:56","slug":"mexican-official-eyes-more-agricultural-exports-to-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/11\/14\/mexican-official-eyes-more-agricultural-exports-to-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican official eyes more agricultural exports to Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) &#8212; A senior official from a leading farm state in Mexico said Sunday that the country should work to boost its agrifood exports to Asia.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Currently Mexico&#8217;s agrifood exports to Asia account for just 5 percent of the total, said Hector Padilla, secretary of rural development for western Jalisco state, citing a recent report by the Chamber of Deputies&#8217; Study Center for Sustainable Rural Development and Food Sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Asian agricultural goods account for just 3 percent of Mexico&#8217;s total food imports, leading to a surplus of 707 million U.S. dollars, said Padilla, also former president of the Mexican Association of Secretaries of Agricultural Development.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, there has been an uptick in sales abroad, mainly to Japan and South Korea, as well as Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, said Padilla.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico buys cinnamon and pepper from Asia, while exporting mostly pork, avocados and beer, which represent 52 percent of sales to the region.<\/p>\n<p>Jalisco supplies some 17 percent of the country&#8217;s agrifood exports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) &#8212; A senior official from a leading farm state in Mexico said Sunday that the country should work to boost its agrifood exports to Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}