Guadalajara Jalisco.- 75 percent of all fires recorded in the 2022 dry season were caused by agricultural activitiesassured Sergio Graf Montero, Secretary of the Environment and Territorial Development.
Sergio Graf assured that measures are being taken to reduce this figure.
“In the Metropolitan Zone is the enforcement of burning banTogether with the municipalities, we are going to strengthen surveillance to prevent agricultural burning, and more than 80 burning schedules were carried out inside the state’s municipalities,” Sergio Graf Montero assured.
However, he stressed that they are working with the Ministry of Agriculture to eliminate agricultural burning in areas near forests.
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This season 1,448 fires occurredof which 410 occurred within the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area.
It is worth mentioning that it was preliminarily reported that 66 thousand 245 hectares were affectedHowever, the secretary highlighted that this represents 19 percent less than in 2021. The most affected municipality was Mezquitic with 64 claims, affecting 8,564 hectares.
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