The excessive increase in fertilizer prices has an impact on the foods of the Mexican daily diet; the cost of the basic food basket went from 6.7 percent in September to 8 percent per year in the first half of last October.
The onion, the potato and the tomato increased 30% and 60%; beans were 16.67%, rice, rose 20%, reveals the monitoring of the Agricultural Markets Consultant Group.
In Mexico, the price of fertilizers reaches historic levels. Anhydrous ammonia, for example, which at the beginning of the year had a price of around 8 thousand pesos tonnes, today is at 18 thousand pesos; urea went from the order of 7 thousand pesos to more than 14 thousand; ammonium sulfate costs the producer triple when it is sold for 17 thousand pesos.
Almost 35% have increased the kilo of tortilla during the AMLO government
This situation not only affects agricultural producers, but also has a direct impact on food prices, points out the National Alliance of Small Traders (Anpec), which conducts monthly monitoring of the prices of basic food products.
Against this background, the biofertilization expert and director of the Siglo XXI Biofactory, Marcel Morales Ibarra, spoke out for modifying the policy of chemical fertilization programs and switching to ecological solutions.
“The fertilization program that is required is precisely to promote alternatives to the use of these fertilizers that are given away and that have already caused great damage to the environment and especially to the soils; alternatives that have existed for decades and have demonstrated their economic, productive and ecological effectiveness in the country and in the world ”.
The specialist pointed out that it is not about demonizing fertilizers, on the contrary, making a rational and responsible use of them, since only with their reduction in combination with biofertilizers can the ecological impact be reduced and generate economic, socio-environmental and environmental benefits. contribute to recovering soils.
In addition, by combining chemical fertilizers with biofertilizers, a significant increase in the efficiency level of the former is achieved, doubling or even tripling their use by the plant, going from 20-30% to 80-100% of use of the applied fertilizer.
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