The Minister of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, Andrés Alencastre, affirmed today that the 2021-2022 agricultural campaign has been almost successful in producing food for the population.
“With regard to food security, the 2021-2022 agricultural campaign has been almost successful, in the sense of having produced the amount of food that was expected (to serve the population) and only registered a decrease of 1.1%, according to our review of data in the ministry”, reported during the press conference organized by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM).
Alencastre pointed out that these figures have meant that the food supply is guaranteed for the 2021-2022 campaign.
Regarding the next agricultural campaign (2022-2023), he maintained that all measures are being adopted in coordination with the Midagri structure, added to the State institutions that, in relation to fertilization (of crops), will be attended in the farmers’ most vulnerable sites and everything else will be incorporated in an organized manner.
Likewise, the Minister of Agrarian Development and Irrigation stated that, having produced the nullity of the second call for the purchase of fertilizers (urea), his portfolio adopted the corresponding measures, in order to carry out a new process and acquire said input.
“The urea will arrive at the warehouses for distribution in August to producers of less than five hectares. We will arrive at the start of the 2022-2023 agricultural campaign”, she pointed out.
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