Without agricultural insurance, 1,200 plots of Meztitlán affected by Hurricane Grace

PACHUCA.- Around 1,200 hectares of culture from Naked They were discarded of the Agricultural Catastrophic Insurance of the government of Hidalgo, after that between August and September flooded due to rains from Hurricane Grace.

In accordance with Carlos Muñiz Rodríguez, Secretary of Agricultural Development of the state, this was due to the fact that the producers they don’t have the documentation that endorses them as owners of the installments.

The foregoing was said when appearing before local deputies, to whom he reported that in total there were they censored about 2 thousand hectares of rainfed crops and irrigation, of which only 800 hectares will be supported with means ranging from 1,500 to 2,500 pesos.

Two months ago, La Silla Rota Hidalgo documented this problem in which the farmers they went under the water to remove the ears of corn from the installments what were left flooded, due to the rising of the Metztitlán Lagoon, behind the Hurricane Grace and torrential rains.

The municipal president of Meztitlán, Gabino López Hernández, got angry with me (because the Sedagroh did not go immediately to make the damage measurements) because ‘it rained on us in the wet’, since while we waited for the water to drop in Meztitlán, unfortunately the Tula river overflowed and we left for 18 days, “said Carlos Muñiz.

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As those days passed, he said, a brigade was dispatched to Naked, who counted 2 thousand hectares affected; however, only 800 were recognized, for which around 3 million pesos will be paid.

Here a problem arose, because most of the peasants who reported losses to us did not have papers with which to prove that they had the document to prove the property or the contract that they had rented them, as this was done by word of mouth, “he said.

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To simplify the integration of files that endorse before the Secretary of the Comptroller’s Office, Sedagroh asked the farmers copies of contracts and of the voting lisense, being that most of them did not even have this last document.

It should be noted that corn, walnut and vegetable crops were lost in this area.

So as not to leave them without support from the agricultural catastrophic insurance to the farmers, the state government asked the owners make the rental contract his installments in order to justify the delivery of the resource.

If we give the money to give without making a file, we would have problems, because after a while they will say that I nailed the money, it is about not risking our skin, “said the secretary.

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TULA AND MEZQUITAL VALLEY

When asked by the deputies, of how many hectares of culture were affected after the flood by the overflow of the Tula River, which affected the Mezquital Valley, said there were around 2,000 hectares, of which 415 were total loss.

The affected crops were presented in Ixmiquilpan, Tezontepec de Aldama, Tlahuelilpan, Tlaxcoapan, Chilcuautla, Tasquillo and Tula, whose producers have already begun to receive the severance checks.

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In general, Carlos Muñiz said that affectations at countryside of Hidalgo through the passage of Hurricane Grace and the overflow of the Tula River there are 12 thousand 480 hectares, of which 9 thousand 875 were inspected and 2 thousand have a total loss.

In contrast, two months ago, Javier May Rodríguez, head of the Welfare Secretariat, reported that the federal government identified 6,698 agricultural effects in Hidalgo, by the passage of Grace, granting 4 thousand 500 pesos to each producer that in sum gives 30 million 114 thousand pesos.

A LOCAL AGRICULTURAL DISASTER FUND

Due to the disappearance of the National Fund for Natural Disasters (Funds), the secretary of agriculture of Hidalgo proposed to legislators a State Fund for Agricultural Disasters.

In a press conference, Carlos Muñiz calculated that said state fund should be 300 million pesos, to attend livestock, fishing and agricultural emergencies.

In agriculture alone, agricultural insurance costs us 36 million pesos to cover between 450,000 and 500,000 hectares of crops throughout the state, “he said.

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CUTS AND LOANS

In the last three years, Carlos Muñiz pointed out to the local Congress that federal program cuts have been made (due to his disappearance) that have reduced production and affected the countryside.

In his speech, the PRI deputy, Roberto Rico Ruiz, reported that from 2019 to 2020 Hidalgo was withdrawn 106.7 million pesos from countryside; from 2020 to 2021 the decrease was 2.3 percent, and from 2021 to 2022, the reduction reached 7.3 million pesos.

Given the lack of support from the federation, it is going to have to bank (that the decline in the field is resolved through the bank); although it must be recognized that there are many small and medium-sized producers who ‘fear’ this of borrowing, “he said.

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He gave as an example the Special Program for Food Security (PESA) which, after its extinction, left out 41,244 people in the most remote communities of the Huasteca and Sierra de Hidalgo.

When we complained about the PESA resource, they told us to get into loans, but we know that there are small and medium producers who are afraid of credit, and they know that they do not have a possibility of access, because they do not have a guarantee ” , he indicated.

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To have means for him countryside, said that it is working with the development finance to create a special program so that they can obtain 250 million pesos during the last year of Omar Fayad’s government.

With this, the small and medium producers are going to lend them 50 thousand, 100 thousand and 150 thousand pesos. This does not solve their life, nor their credit, but they will be able to buy a trailer, a mincer, a packing plant, supplies, things that help them to further lighten their production in the field, “he said.

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A STRANGER

Carlos Muñiz said he did not know who he is delegate from Secretary of Agriculture and Rural development (SADER), formerly Sagarpa, since it has not been presented and three years have passed since the current one started federal government.

Until now, I do not know who is in charge of the Sader delegation in Hidalgo, as we already asked, I do not know him by name. This problem is not exclusive to Hidalgo, because, as national president of the secretaries of agriculture, in all the states they have that doubt … there is no head, we no longer know what they are called, if delegates, managers or directors, “he said.

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JUSTIFICATION

Fortunato González Islas, local deputy of Huejutla, complained to the secretary about tours throughout the state “to pose for the photo”, forgetting the goal of supporting the farmers.

I take the photo because now the Comptroller’s Office asks us to do so. Unfortunately I have to do it out of obligation, because they persecute us everywhere to justify that the support of the programs is delivered to people of flesh and blood, “he justified.

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THE HUASTECA

The official said the countryside on the region from Huasteca de Hidalgo it does not advance because there are many peasant organizations that have particular interests.

There are many organizations that have hurt the Huasteca, it is not a secret for anyone, if there are from 40 organizations more than the letters of the alphabet and that meant that for many years the region did not advance, because they were municipal power quotas, or of one or three communities that prevented joint work, “said the secretary without mentioning names.

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