“It seems that the President is determined to collapse the countryside”: Gálvez

Hermosillo, Son. After meeting on Tuesday with Sinaloan producers who have blocked roads in recent days, the presidential candidate of the Fuerza y ​​Corazón por México (PAN, PRI and PRD) coalition, Xóchitl Gálvez, stated that “it seems that the President is determined to collapse rural production” and considered that “the countryside is a disaster.”

Gálvez arrived this afternoon in Hermosillo, Sonora, where just over twenty supporters with banners and batons were already waiting for her at the airport of this city in the north of the country. She was also received by Antonio Astiazarán Gutiérrez, candidate of the PAN, PRI and PRD coalition for mayor of Hermosillo.

In an interview, the woman from Hidalgo stated that in the current six-year term, support for the countryside was reduced by 180 billion.

“That is the crisis that farmers are experiencing, there is no support for machinery, there is no support for coverage, there is no support for insurance, there is no rural finance company to have cheap credit, the fishermen do not have engines, they do not have diesel or to riverside gasoline, the ranchers are in the same situation, and the aquaculturists are experiencing the illegal importation of shrimp that is arriving from Colombia and which is absolutely illegal, shrimp should not enter, and that is hitting aquaculture in the tower,” he said. .

After pointing out that the President of the Republic should send the Secretary of Agriculture to resolve the producers’ demands, the opposition candidate expressed: “It seems that the president is determined to collapse rural production, allowing the importation of meat improperly. , allowing the importation of milk which is leading to producers in the Chihuahua area having to sell milk for three pesos. It is a disaster in the countryside, and add to it organized crime, extortion, because that is the problem we are experiencing.”

Furthermore, he indicated that “by avoiding price hedging, today farmers do not know how they are going to harvest. The government proposes paying at a price of 5,300 pesos and several of them argue that it does not give them; Last year they were paid more than 7 thousand pesos and for them it is complicated.”

He maintained that, together with the drought, with dams that are at 13 percent of their capacity, farmers are planting a third of what they had projected.