CREATION AND CONSOLIDATION OF THE GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF PLANT HEALTH. 1964-2000

Abstract

The challenge of facing food security has allowed throughout history to overcome the limitations of
production caused by erratic weather and rain cycles, achieve technological advances to increase
crop yield, incorporate new discoveries for control from pests and plant diseases, diversify production,
improve conservation and storage processes and shelf life, and also new ways of processing products
to have reserves for longer periods. Within this context, the "Agricultural Parasitology Commission"
was born in Mexico in 1900, a dependency that was gradually transformed, increasing its material
and human infrastructure to give rise to the General Directorate of Plant Health (DGSV) in 1964.
Subsequently In the changes from the "Economic Model of Substitution of Imports" to the new
neoliberal model of "Free Market", the DGSV will play an important role from 1982 to 2000 in the
agricultural transformation of Mexico. Currently, the General Directorate of Plant Health, has the
objective of regulating the processes of mobilization and commercialization of agricultural products,
as well as the importation of vegetables, which may generate impact or be the means of introduction
or dissemination of regulated pests for the country, in addition to executing the necessary actions
before the National Phytosanitary Protection Organizations that restrict the export of national
agricultural products, based on scientific evidence, pest risk analyzes, the agroecological
characteristics of the areas and the accreditation of the condition health of national agricultural
production, promoting agricultural productivity and facilitating the commercialization of agricultural
products from Mexico.