The first vice president of the Confederation of the Association of Agricultural Producers (Fedeager), Celso fantinel, warned that national production reached a critical point: 20%, because the other 80% is being imported.
Fantinel indicated that Only 90% of the inputs required by the sector are paid in foreign currency, because the seeds they treat are of the highest quality.
The union leader pointed out that “No producer wants to risk a seed that does not have a production power like these seeds that come from Mexico, some from Argentina and Brazil and are seeds that are tropicalized”, expressed in an interview offered to Union Radio.
However, he stressed that the agricultural area needs approximately “5,000 tractors a year to recover the sowing” This compared to 2010 and he added that it is a job that they must do and with long-standing investments, that is, 10 to 15 years to be able to cancel the machinery.
Fantinel stressed that to be able to plant a cycle between two and three million hectares that Venezuela needs, about 1.5 billion dollars should be used and in order to cover that amount it has to be with “Foreign loans”, He said.
Besieged by invasions
Recently, Fantinel expressed that the agricultural sector is being the victim of invasions by unscrupulous people in the states of Barinas, Portuguesa, Apure, Guárico, Lara, Zulia and Táchira, which means a bad sign for farm workers, who day to day they strive in the food production for Venezuelans. “They are organized groups that take several people, including women and children, and the authorities find it difficult to remove them,” he said.
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