Destination: Mexico
Ohio State tour focuses on agriculture and migration
With nearly 16,000 documented migrant workers--and 75,000 to 150,000 unauthorized immigrants--living and working in Ohio, employers in the landscape, nursery and livestock industries have a vested interest: to learn to work with Mexican migrant workers most effectively, with good communication and a minimum of cultural and agricultural clashes.
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Ohio State and Mexico's Colegio de Postgraduados are working together to help that happen.
A group of Ohio State Extension Educators recently spent 10 days touring central Mexico, including Mexico City and several farm-based communities.
The Ohio educators learned about Mexican history; discovered how important the idea of community is in Mexican society; and saw the challenges faced by farmers who experience the direct impacts of migration on rural communities.
--Claudio Pasian, Ohio State Extension horticulturist
“We have similar program goals and share similar development agendas. Our countries are tied together and depend on each other,” said Fernando Manzo-Ramos, who works for the Colegio and hosted the tour. “That is why the working relationship we are trying to develop is so important and necessary.”
(Excerpted from a story by Candace Pollock of the Ohio State Extension. Read the full story.)
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