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Representatives of different agricultural and peasant organizations held this morning a meeting with the Permanent Commission and relevant authorities to discuss aspects related to the context they are going through due to the drought that affected many crops, while taking advantage of and issuing their requests to counteract Adverse effects.
The attendees requested rapid and effective assistance for all affected sectors and one of the proposals of the National Intersectoral Coordinator (CNI) and the Indigenous and Popular Articulation was the urgent creation of an emergency fund to help producers. “We need urgent action, we cannot wait to collect data, this is a national problem and should be addressed as such,” said the spokesmen.
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This, in relation to what was announced by the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Santiago Bertoni, that the data must first be collected so that the assistance, recently announced by the Executive, can reach 21 thousand small producers and peasant family agriculture.
Félix Núñez, from the CNI, also alluded to the fact that not only the freezing of the debt is taken into account while they seek to stabilize the country, because “this is not a sector problem, but a generic one,” he said.
Ester Leiva, from the peasant organizations, stated that the situation in the countryside is dire. “There must be a project, a program from the State institutions to strengthen peasant production so that it does not affect each climatic situation,” he said.
The Campesino Resistance Movement (MRC) for its part asked for agricultural insurance, since the climate problem generates a situation that they describe as catastrophic for small producers and small peasant farms, which in many cases lost all of their plantations of self-consumption.
In this sense, they also considered the declaration of national emergency necessary to be able to assist producers and recover lost production with a technical assistance mechanism that also includes fuel and seeds.
In turn, the Mandioqueros Association of the Vaquería district, Caaguazú department, which brings together approximately 700 producers, requested compensation for more than proposing transfers through the State for producers affected by their sowing.
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For Gabino Medina, from the Departmental Family Agriculture Committee of Caaguazú, it is also necessary that technical and technological assistance be made available to the producers for the sustained progress of the field over time. It should be mentioned that all the proposals that will be part of a document will have official entry in the ordinary session of the Permanent Commission.
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