Government to launch national program to increase native corn productionMexico City, Mexico — President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that next year she will launch a national program to increase the production of native corn. Soon we will present an ambitious program, in addition to Production for Well-being and free fertilizer support, to support the cultivation of criollo corn, the corn native to Mexico,” she explained Monday. “Without corn there is no country,” said Sheinbaum mentioning that since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the price of corn, native or genetically modified, is set on the Chicago Stock Exchange. Genetically modified corn, on the other hand, while cheaper to grow, cannot be replanted. She highlighted the importance of the recent constitutional reform to Articles 4 and 27, which recognizes corn as a fundamental part of our identity and food security, but also prohibits genetically modified corn.