From February 28th to March 1st, Agrofest Coahuila 2025 was held in the city of Saltillo. The event featured recreational activities such as horseback riding, cooking contests, and concerts, as well as training and keynote conferences. All of this focused on the productive, farming, and livestock sectors of the state of Coahuila. Several keynote conferences were lectured, including “The Road to High Corn Yields” by Eng. Ernesto Cruz Gonzalez, Atider CEO, who gave us an emotional explanation on how he managed to break a corn production record in China with forty-four tons per hectare.

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Felipe Pena Duenas, CONAGO CEO, also participated with the talk “The challenges of this new six-year period to support logistics in the agrifood trade.” Also, on behalf of the Mexican Agrifood and Livestock Council (Consejo Nacional Agropecuario), Eng. Patricia Toledo shared the importance of pursuing sustainability in everything we do within the farming sector. She highlighted the companies who recently joined this movement have achieved very positive results, both in their business development and financially speaking.

Lastly, invited by Agrofest organizer Carlos Salazar, our CEO Georgius Gotsis discussed the subject “Trends and challenges in the agrifood exports market into the United States”. He emphasized the necessary importance of seeking alternative markets to the United States, while continuing to bring Mexican farmers closer to the American consumer. This means to reduce the intermediary gap so that our farmers receive the greatest benefits for their work, given that they bear the greatest risks within this industry.

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Likewise, the unique weekly internal audit system our farmers use at Veggies From Mexico was shared. This is a one-of-a-kind approach both in Mexico and North America, which seeks to ensure that farmers from Sinaloa obtain another certification to endorse their food safety and social responsibility processes.