With field visits to assess the magnitude of the damage caused by the floods, the activity in Ñuble of the new regional director of Indap, Fernanda Azócar, began, who comes to the position through a Public Senior Management contest.
During a day on the ground in the Colvindo sector, where the flooding of the Ñiquén and Perquilauquén rivers dragged mud and stones to riverside crops and greenhouses and dragged part of the organic matter layer from the producers, the board of directors together with officials from the area and the SAT Hortalizas advisor were able to see in the field the affectation of the productive systems and the way in which the horticultural sector is developed in the modality under cover, which was also affected due to the humidity of the land.
“As INDAP we are concerned about the productive activity and our producers and that is why we are on the ground, responding to the presidential mandate and the Ministry of Agriculture, to respond to the needs of our users. To do this, a first survey of early aid information has been carried out that will respond to the need for animal feed for mixed livestock, beekeeping and poultry,” said the regional director of Indap, who relieved the coordination with the Seremi de Agricultura. with the delivery of concentrate for animal feed in the Coelemu commune, while Indap Ñuble will continue the delivery to its users on Monday.
This early aid will be delivered to 391 registered users and corresponds to 400 tons of animal feed, equivalent to 16,000 bags of food, with an investment of 107 million pesos. “At the same time, we are making a cadastre to go with support for productive rehabilitation with greater precision, in coordination with the seremy and agricultural services to arrive at an integrated cadastre and arrive with the aid that is required for productive rehabilitation, with which that support can be directed to the items affected by the emergency. This region has been heavily hit by the emergency; I arrive in a post-fire, post-flood region, but even so, peasant family agriculture does not stop, it is resilient in getting back on its feet and we as INDAP are going to strengthen that work. As President Gabriel Boric and our agricultural authorities have affirmed, we are not going to leave them alone and in this context, we were on the ground to meet first-hand the farmers who have been affected by the flooding of the river, who have many intentions of continue working”, commented Fernanda Azocar.
“The river took the land”
Alejandro Elgueta, a vegetable farmer from Colvindo, was one of the growers who suffered damage, including the complete loss of one of his greenhouses, which collapsed when the river rose. “Here the river carried away the earth, leaving the pure stones and demolishing the greenhouse and two shelters. Now we have to try to recover it, no more”, said the farmer, who lost chard, lettuce and parsley, and although some plants are still standing, the humidity caused fungal problems, so he hopes to recover with a new planting to be in Conditions to sell in September.
“Here you have to start cleaning, chop the wood and fill in to prepare the land again. You have to put effort, no more, ”she commented.
