Roughly 18 years later we can see that NAFTA has not been good for small scale Mexican farmers. For one thing, they are having a difficult time competing against their capital intensive, highly subsidized neighbors to the north: US farmers. Evidence of this can be seen in that fact that the total value of Mexican agri- cultural imports from the USA increased 280 percent from 1992 to 2008(Wise 2009: 4). The Mexican government agreed to lower its support for agriculture while in the USA government support has never been higher. In the late-1990s, the USA extended Mexico roughly US$3 billion in export credits, which the latter then used to buy still more corn from the former(Bello 2009: 45). It is not surprising, then, that between 1993 and 2004 the price of corn and soybeans in Mexico fell by approximately 50 percent(Perez et al 2008: 8)