Meets the Ministry of Interior and the International Fruit and Vegetable Alliance for the Promotion of Social Responsibility

On May 13, the Ministry of the Interior convened a meeting, through Undersecretary Jesus Aguilar Padilla, the members of the International Horticultural Alliance for the Promotion of Social Responsibility with the objective of defining and establishing strategies to improve conditions Of migrant agricultural laborers and their families, based on the joint responsibility of companies and the public sector.

The meeting was led by Miguel Ángel Pérez, General Director of the Segob; Jesús Aguilar Padilla, Undersecretary of Agriculture of Sagarpa and Jorge Kondo, General Director of Agricultural Development of Sagarpa. After a welcome message from these personalities, the members of AHIFORES were given an opportunity to express their concerns and goals.

On the other hand, Martín Ley representing the AHIFORES was given the task of presenting to the authorities in a general way what is the organization, when it was born, with what objective, its members, its mission, etc.

Likewise, Mario Robles, Official Spokesperson for Mexico of the Alliance and Director of the Commission for Research and Defense of Vegetables presented to the participants the main problems that the sector is facing in relation to social responsibility, proposing to its Different actions to counteract the risks and to provide a beneficial environment for the migrants and their families with the support of different dependencies.

As a conclusion, the different government agencies committed themselves to make a diagnosis about the actions that each one carries out in the rural environment and propose lines of action that lead to improve the situation of workers and their families.

It is important to remember that among the members of the Alliance are the main associations of producers and trade associations of Mexico and the United States. Each of them is committed to collaborate in the communities to develop educational programs based on socially responsible best practices.

The main objective of the AHIFORES is that the hortofrutícola industry of Mexico is perceived by the consumers and buyers like a world leader in the actions of social responsibility.