The general objective is to strengthen the organization and development of markets and the productive and commercial agrifood chain. This is achieved through the granting of incentives and services for the commercialization of national crops and the administration of market risks.

The incentives for the Administration of Price Risks (Price coverage) are aimed at protecting the expected income of producers and / or the cost of purchasing agricultural products. In addition, the help in promoting a financial culture of price risk management in the sector.

Operations are carried out with eligible products that are listed on futures exchanges recognized by competent authorities through the purchase and sale of options on futures contracts.

The eligible products are the following basic and strategic crops: corn, wheat, soybean, sorghum, cotton, coffee and any other determined by the Responsible Unit. In the event that the product that is intended to be protected is not listed on futures exchanges, coverage may be taken with another product that is quoted on futures exchanges and is representative of the movement of prices.

Member of the Food Banks Network of Mexico and the Global Bank Network, it was constituted in August 1999, with the aim of storing and distributing food. It later moved to a warehouse built for the Food Bank.

For 15 years it has been managing a solidarity chain that aims at the redistribution of surplus food, donated by companies or producers that share a vocation of assisting the social groups that suffer from one of the most painful aspects of poverty, hunger.

As of November 2014, the Constructivo del Nuevo Banco project, in the Central de Abasto de Xalapa, is a reality; and has collection and distribution facilities adapted to current needs, as well as the growth of beneficiaries and spaces for training.

We currently serve 5,000 families a week who are supported with groceries that contain basic products, dairy, fruit, vegetables and bread. In the state of Veracruz, we reached 80 communities of Atzalan, Xalapa, Coatepec, Banderilla, Tlacolulan, Perote, Emiliano Zapata, Tepetlan, Xilotepec, Coacoatzintla, Jalacingo, Tlanehuayocan and Assistance Institutions of Xalapa. In Puebla, the reach the communes in Teziutlán, Ayotoxco de Guerrero, Hueytamalco, Chignautla, Atempan, Libres and Tlatlauquitepec.

The Food Bank, together with Asociaciones Agroindustriales Serranas and the Nescafe Plan, serve producers in the municipalities of Atzalan, Tlapacoyan Veracruz and Hueytamalco and Teziutlan Puebla.