Skillman to Lead Trade Mission to Mexico
This week, Indiana Lt. Governor Becky Skillman will lead a 26-member delegation of top-level Indiana food and agribusiness leaders to Mexico. She will be joined by Indiana Agriculture Director Andy Miller on this economic development mission.
A list of the members of the delegation is posted on the Lt. Governor's Web site at www.IN.gov/lgov. Updates from the mission, including photographs and notes from the road, will be posted at the same site throughout the week-long trip.
The delegation departed Indiana on Monday, February 4 and returns on Friday, February 8.
The group will spend Tuesday in Mexico City, where the Lt. Governor will meet with U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Antonio O. Garza, Jr. and officials from Mexico's Department of Agriculture. She also will participate in a biotechnology roundtable with industry leaders from both countries. Members of the delegation will tour a pork processing plant, a dairy cattle feed plant, and meet with representatives from Mexico's grain and biotechnology industries.
On Wednesday, the delegation travels to Pachuca, the capital of the Mexican state of Hidalgo. The group will tour Cuenca Dairy Farm, the largest dairy farm in Latin America. The Lt. Governor will also meet with members of Hidalgo's state government to discuss rural development. The group will visit the Autonomous University of Hidalgo, where officials from Purdue University, Ivy Tech - Lafayette, Ball State University, and Indiana University will sign agreements to officially partner with the Mexican university to pursue educational and relationship opportunities.
On Thursday the delegation will fly to the port city of Veracruz on the coast of Mexico. Lt. Gov. Skillman will meet with city officials and tour the Cargill facilities at the Port of Veracruz.
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