The Agriculture Committee of the Zacatecas state legislature issued a favorable opinion on a package of reforms to the state rural development law. The reforms add Article 78 Bis, giving the state agriculture secretariat and a state agrifood health body legal power to sample and test fields for transgenic maize.
Enforcement against illegal GM maize planting in Mexico's native-corn heartland could tighten local white corn supply chains and reinforce Mexico's federal ban on GM corn cultivation, with limited direct effect on global corn prices.
After 439 past neutral policy events, CORN moved a median +0.1% over 5 sessions (51% higher; middle half -1.3% to +1.2%), and +1.1% over 20.
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