Midagri assures that the fertilizers will arrive in August | PERU

After participating last night in a session of the Council of Ministers, the head of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, Andrés Alencastre, announced that the 2021-2022 agricultural campaign has been almost successful in producing food for the population

“When talking about 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 that there has only been a decrease of 1.1 %, according to our review of data in the ministry,” he reported.

The minister 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, Minister Alencastre said that all measures are being adopted in coordination with the Midagri structure added to the State institutions that, in terms of fertilization (of crops), “will be taken care of in the most vulnerable sites of the farmers, and everything else will be incorporated in an organized manner,” he said.

On the other hand, he pointed out that having made the nullity of the second call for the purchase of fertilizers (urea), the Agriculture sector has adopted the corresponding measures, in order to carry out a new process and acquire said input, which will arrive in the month from August to warehouses for distribution to producers of less than five hectares. “We will arrive at the start time of the 2022-2023 agricultural campaign ″, he concluded.

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