Francisco Merino Rábago

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Francisco Merino Rábago (born March 20, 1920 (according to other information: 1919 ) in Irapuato , Guanajuato state ; † November 25, 1994 (according to other information: November 1, 1994 in Mexico City )) was a Mexican politician of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), who was Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation ( Secretario de Agricultura y Recursos Hidraúlicos ) between 1976 and 1982 .

Life

After attending school in 1936, Merino Rábago took up a job at Banco Nacional de Crédito Ejidal, SA and was head of the credit department there between 1954 and 1956 and then deputy director of this bank between 1956 and 1958. After he was advisor to the then Minister of Agriculture, Julián Rodríguez Adame , from 1958 to 1959 , he returned to Banco Nacional de Crédito Ejidal, SA and was again head of the credit department there between 1959 and 1965 and then deputy director of this bank again from 1968 to 1970 before he acted as General Manager of Banco Nacional de Crédito Ejidal, SA between 1970 and 1972 . After he was manager of the branch of the Banco Nacional de Crédito Ejidal, SA in La Laguna between 1972 and 1974 and in 1975 in the state of Michoacán , he was first deputy general director in 1975 and then between 1975 and 1976 general director of Banco Agrícola , Banco Agropecuario and the Banco Nacional de Crédito Ejidal created Banco Nacional de Crédito Rural .

In 1976 Merino Rábago took over the post of Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation ( Secretario de Agricultura y Recursos Hidraúlicos ) in the government of President José López Portillo and held this until the end of López Portillo's tenure in 1982. In 1982 he was General Director of the National Seed Society PRONASE (Productora Nacional de Semillas) for some time . Most recently, between 1988 and his death in 1994, he was Director General of the National Fruit Commission CONAFRUT (Comisión Nacional de Fruticultura) and at the same time advisor to the then Minister for Agriculture and Irrigation, Carlos Hank González , who also appointed him Undersecretary in 1989.

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