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Cacao, beans and even amaranth were used as tribute in ceremonies and as money. Agriculture used terraces in hills, irrigation systems in valleys and chinampas in swamps. The task was performed by THE BEST.
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Cows, donkeys, horses, use of plant food and irrigation systems were brought by the conquistadores. Indigenas had to pay taxes for growing their own land
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The Spanish set up a system in which the land was granted to the conquistadores and the natives were forced to worked for them. Production of pulque, corn, wheat, beans and cotton was extremely succesful and favorable for the hacendados
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Cacao arrived in Eupore and chocolate became popular in all European courts along with cochineal red to paint clothes
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The new president change the law: no land to The church or indigenas. Ranchs and Haciendas numbers increased
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The railway is constructed, foreign investment is encouraged, Mexican exports at its peak, height of caciquismo
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8,000 haciendas belonged to foreigners, the land was distributed but in the mist of a war there was no one to cultivate it. Mexico's first hunger crisis in history.
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The constitution is changed: The government is the soul owner of the land, water and underground minerals. HUNGER YEAR
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President Lázaro Cárdenas expropriates all land in the hands of foreigners
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technology is imported, agriculture technicians are taught in schools, imports rise to a level never seen.
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people leave the fields to work in the cities but a major economic crisis there is no money for agriculture and Mexico starts importing most of its staple food
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Agricultural products are duty free in the treaty and subsidies are created to compete with the quality of produce in USA and CANADA
