Agriculture in Mexico

species of plant

thumb|300px|right|Modern chinampas thumb|right|300px|The lake system within the Valley of Mexico at the time of the [[Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire, showing distribution of the chinampas.]]

upright=1.2|thumbnail|Ejido Cuauhtémoc in Jiquipilas|Jiquipilas, Chiapas An ejido (, from Latin exitum) is an area of communal land used for agriculture in which community members have usufruct rights rather than ownership rights to land, which in Mexico is held by the Mexican state. People awarded ejidos in the modern era farm them individually in parcels and collectively maintain communal holdings with government oversight. Although the system of ejidos was based on an understanding of the preconquest Aztec calpulli and the medieval Spanish ejido, since the 20th century ejidos have been mana

wine from Mexico

Account of archaic North American agriculture