The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) owes 3 billion pesos to producers of corn, sorghum, wheat and rice in Guanajuato, Jalisco, Nayarit, Sonora, Sinaloa, Zacatecas and other entities, which are part of the Guarantee Prices program.
And until the first half of October 2025, there were more than 13,13,000 corn, sorghum, wheat, and rice producers throughout the country who had not received what they were entitled to from the Guarantee Price program.
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“The Ministry of Agriculture has debts with the producers of corn, sorghum, wheat and rice for the Guarantee Prices program,” denounced Eraclio. Yours Rodríguez, head of the National Front for the Rescue of the Mexican Countryside.
The debts come from the disappearance of Segalmex, as well as from the lack of political will, he told Forbes Mexico.
The Guarantee Prices complement the income of small and medium-sized agricultural producers of basic grains, such as rice, beans, corn and wheat, and milk.
“The comrades from Sinaloa are owed 400 million pesos, while the wheat producers of Sonora and Mexicali are owed more than 200 million pesos from marketing, says the agricultural leader. Other producers in Bajío and the rest of the country are owed about 2.4 billion pesos,” he explained.
Baltazar Valdez Armentía, president of Campesinos Unidos de Sinaloa, said that the protests carried out in 17 states of the Mexican Republic are to be paid for the pending support from Sader.
The corn growers of Sinaloa have not received support from the Guarantee Prices program for 14 months, just as there are pending payments with wheat producers throughout Mexico, he recalled.
Currently in all regions of Mexico there are debts, because the government of Claudia Sheinbauam Pardo has not been able to pay off the Guarantee Prices program, said the Sinaloan businessman.
During the last meeting of grain producers, the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Julio Berdegue, did not make any serious commitment to pay the pending supports, he pointed out.
In Sinaloa, he added, they owe corn producers more than 400 million pesos.
“We are talking about support of 2,200 pesos per ton in the case of wheat producers, because they were assured a Guarantee Price; for the price at which the wheat harvest was paid, they still need to receive more than 2,200 per ton,” he mentioned.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development assumed the liabilities with the agricultural producers of the Guarantee Prices program, after the disappearance of Segalmex.
The budget is already labeled and they have nowhere to adjust to pay corn, wheat and rice producers.
Agricultural producers say that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development at the end of August paid what was agreed for the Guarantee Prices for the 2023 to 2024 agricultural cycle.
The crisis for rural producers in Sinaloa has been going on for two years, after grain prices fell in the international market due to an oversupply, noted Baltazar Valdez Armentía.
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In the United States, producers are breaking records with the corn harvest, something that affects the market globally, he added.
“Two years ago we began to lose, since we were unable to achieve profitability in the crops. And in Sinaloa the lands have not been moved for the sowing cycle,” he said.
“Currently, we do not have credits or financing, because private banks do not lend money to producers of corn, wheat, sorghum and rice due to the low profitability of their crops,” added the president of Campesinos Unidos de Sinaloa.
