¡Viva Mexico!: Agave Sweetens Economic Prospects of Indigenous Women

Indigenous Otomi women run a green business.

MEXICO: Agave Sweetens Economic Prospects of Indigenous Women - IPS ipsnews.net: "Hortencia Rómulo is one of the founders of the cooperative Milpa de Maguey Tierno de la Mujer, made up of 22 women and one man who harvest this spiny-leaved (maguey agave) plant in the community of San Andrés Daboxtha from a 73-hectare field, located about 120 kilometres northeast of Mexico City.

The pulque agave products have become the leading source of revenue for the Otomí indigenous peoples in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo,"