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Cuernavaca, Morelos
Grupo IMSUR Phone: 617-848-2046 Bilingual, professional service in Cuernavaca, Tepotzlan and the rest of Morelos. | ||
La Paz, Baja California Sur
Omni Services S.A. de C.V. Phone: 011-52-612-123-4888 E-mail: omni@osmx.com We provide real estate sales and services in La Paz, Baja California Sur. Member of A.M.P.I. La Paz, and Realtors International. | ||
San Miguel De Allende
Re/Max Colonial Real Estate Phone: 011-524-152-6195 E-mail: mtdu_bois@yahoo.com E-mail me for our new award winning website with lots of beautiful homes, haciendas, and residential lots, including a new ecological community with colonial architecture centered around an international art school. | ||
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Much of Mexico is too dry or mountainous for agriculture; only 14 percent of the nation’s land is cultivated or used for plantations and orchards. Irrigation is required to farm in many regions. Most of the food consumed by Mexicans is raised on Mexican farms, although frequent droughts and a population that is growing faster than the amount of food produced have made Mexico dependent on agricultural imports, particularly grains and milk products. Large volumes of products such as coffee, cotton, citrus fruits, sugar, and tomatoes are grown for export, primarily to the United States. Most coffee is grown in the southern states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, cotton is cultivated mainly on irrigated land in northwest Mexico, and sugar plantations are scattered in various states, with the largest concentration in Veracruz. About 20 percent of Mexico’s agricultural production is exported.Mexico has significant forest resources, despite the fact that much of the nation’s land is semiarid and many of the forests that existed prior to the arrival of Europeans have been lost to logging and erosion. It is estimated that nearly two-thirds of what is now Mexico was covered by forests in the early 1500s; by 2000 forests covered only 29 percent of the country. Almost all logging has been placed under strict government supervision, but this has failed to halt deforestation. Fishing has increased in importance, symbolized by the fact that Mexico now devotes a cabinet-level agency to its development and protection. The most valuable fishery resources are found in the Gulf of Mexico, especially the states of Campeche and Veracruz; the Gulf of California, bordering the states of Sonora and Sinaloa; and the Pacific Ocean, notably off the coast of Baja California. The most important seafood export is tuna, and shrimp is increasingly valuable to the domestic market. Mining, especially of silver and copper, has historically been the most important extractive industry in Mexico. Although petroleum production has surpassed the mining of metals in importance, Mexico remains a major producer and exporter of silver. It also operates one of the largest salt extraction facilities in the world in Guerrero Negro in the state of Baja California Sur. Its chief mining regions are Chihuahua, Durango, Hidalgo, and Zacatecas. In the early 1990s mining accounted for about 2 percent of the nation’s GDP and employed about 1 percent of the labor force. In 1996 Mexico ranked eighth in the world in the total value of its crude oil production. It is also among the world’s top producers of celestite, silver, sodium sulfate, antimony, white arsenic, bismuth, fluorspar, and graphite. Many large foreign companies, owned primarily by U.S. and Japanese investors, have located hundreds of maquiladoras in Mexico. These businesses produce specific parts of products to be sold in or exported from the home country, or they import parts from abroad, assemble the products in Mexico, and then ship the completed products back to the home country. This sector has been one of the fastest-growing in the Mexican economy, contributing significantly to economic growth, and providing new employment even during the years that followed the 1994 economic crisis. Mexican factories produce motor vehicles, cement, sulfuric acid, petrochemicals, metals, rubber products, plastics, paper products, and a variety of consumer goods, including cigars and cigarettes, textiles, clothing, shoes, glassware, beer and soft drinks, household appliances, and radios and televisions. | ||
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