employment and guaranteeing prosperity for the rural population and its participation and incorporation in national development; the State will encourage agricultural, livestock-raising and forestry activities to make optimum use of the land, with infrastructural works, materials, loans and a training and technical assistance service. It will also issue regulatory legislation for planning and organizing agricultural production, its industrialization and the marketing of the produce, considering them to be of public interest". Article 28 of the Constitution stipulates that "Laws will establish a basis for announcing maximum prices for the articles, material or products considered necessary for the national economy and public consumption and for laying down the ways in which said articles, material and products are distributed in order to avoid unnecessary or excessive middleman operations leading to shortages and increases in price. The law shall protect the consiomers and encourage them to organize in order the better to look after their interests". 189. Article 27 of the Constitution establishes the conditions governing the property in that the economic system and social organization of Mexico are supported therein. The provisions of the Mexican Constitution affirm the rights of the nation over land and water and the source of private property therein through the transmission of ownership by the nation itself as well as the subordination of private property to social considerations and the possibility open to the nation of imposing courses of action dictated by the public interest. 190. In Mexico recognition is given to various forms of property, depending on the person or entity to which it is deemed to belong; thus there is public property, private property and social property. For historical reasons, property in Mexico is subject to certain restraints; one of them is the limit set on its extension, laid down by the law itself. Thus small holdings are 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the role of the state in regulating and supporting various economic activities, particularly in the agricultural sector. It also touches on the concept of property and its relationship to the public interest. The text suggests that the state will provide support for agricultural activities, including infrastructure, materials, loans, and technical assistance, and will also regulate agricultural production, industrialization, and marketing to ensure public interest.

**Category**
Economic development, Agriculture, forestry and fishing