History
Irrigation development in Mexico has been traditionally affected by the Mexican revolution and the agrarian reform. At the beginning of the Revolution (1910), there were about 1.2 million ha if irrigated land. Much if this land had been developed by land companies, mainly American, to grow plantation crops such as sugar cane and cotton. After the creation of the National Irrigation Commission in 1926, the irrigated area quickly expanded, and the agricultural census reported a total of 4.3 million ha of irrigated land by 1960. By the late 1980s, Mexico had about 6 million ha under irrigation.
During the 1980s and 1990s, irrigation development slowed down due to the economic crisis. The irrigation sector focused then on optimizing the use of exiting infrastructure. In 1997, the total irrigated area accounted for 6, 2 million ha, 5, 4 million ha were actually irrigated. The northern states of Sinaloa and Sonora, account for 15% and 11% respectively of the total irrigated land.
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