Published On: Wed, Apr 24th, 2024

Mexican farmers take on avocado growers in fight for water during drought

A hand picking up an avocado from a crate of them.

In recent days, subsistence farmers and activists from the Michoacán town of Villa Madero organized teams to go into the mountains and rip out illegal water pumps and breach unlicensed irrigation holding ponds.

CBC | World News

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Mexican farmers take on avocado growers in fight for water during drought