“Corn production in Mexico has increased steadily since 1947,” reports Dr. J. George Harrar, the architect of the Rockefeller Foundation’s agriculture program, later to become the Foundation

“The country [has] been able to meet the demands of increasing population since 1947 without resorting to the importation of this basic food from abroad.” During this period, Mexico becomes a net exporter not only of corn, but of wheat and other cereals.