💰 Mexican lawmakers push wider pesticides ban; farm groups alarmed

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MEXICO CITY, Nov 9 (Reuters) - A broad coalition of Mexican lawmakers is pushing to ban nearly 200 chemicals used in pesticides, saying they endanger human health, and the plan has alarmed farmers who say the move could devastate the country's food production.There is a growing movement in Mexico against the use of pesticides and genetically modified crops, but some in the government have said the latest proposal goes too far, too fast.But most of us are supporting our president's project and we are going to win the vote," MORENA Senator Ana Lilia Rivera Rivera, one of the lawmakers behind the initiative, told Reuters.Mexico's top farm lobby, the CNA, which represents more than 2 million producers, issued a statement last week blasting the bill as "ideological" and warning it could have devastating effects for farmers and consumers.But Suarez's boss, Agriculture Minister Victor Villalobos, warned the Senate last month that banning pesticides quickly could lead to food insecurity and higher prices, angering some close to the president who thought he was defying Lopez Obrador's decree."

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