The government of Tamaulipas plans to build a white-sorghum flour plant for tortillas in Ciudad Victoria, La Razón de Tamaulipas reported Nov. 8, quoting deputy agriculture secretary Eliseo Camacho Nieto. The paper said the plant would stand next to the state rural-development secretariat’s offices, on the road out toward Soto la Marina, and that it would be the state’s first factory of that kind.

Camacho told the newspaper the first stone could be laid in January or February 2027 — he said he thinks February, with the governor present — once site work and equipment are far enough along. He said Ciudad Victoria was chosen over other sites, including a coastal location at La Marina, because of logistics and the need for water, electricity and gas. “Se analizó todo el estado… la viabilidad la tenemos aquí en Victoria por cuestiones logísticas” (“The whole state was reviewed… we have the viability here in Victoria for logistical reasons”), the paper quoted him as saying.

As described by Camacho, the plant would process 25,000 tonnes of white sorghum a year and employ about 200 to 250 people, some of them in food chemistry and industrial process work. He put the industrial equipment at 70 to 80 million pesos; the paper said the machinery is already being built in Nuevo León and is being paid for in progress payments tied to inspections.

The raw grain is meant to come from Tamaulipas growers. Camacho said the state wants 5,000 to 10,000 hectares in the next agricultural cycle, mainly around Ciudad Victoria, planted to the Paloma variety developed by Tamaulipas researcher Noé Montes, a former INIFAP scientist, under purchase contracts sized to the plant. The paper said the state’s aim is for the first harvests to feed equipment trials late in 2027. White sorghum has been a small crop in the state, Camacho said, with historically no more than 5,000 hectares planted.

Officials also want a market for the flour, starting in Tamaulipas: Camacho pointed to Tiendas del Bienestar, where the paper said the flour would first go through tastings before the stores’ community councils, and also named food pantries, prisons and community kitchens as possible outlets. He also said the plant would have certified silos for food-grade grain, which he suggested could later help with export talks, including with China. Those outlets and any export path are plans, not contracts reported as signed.

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