The National Convention of Peruvian Agro (Conveagro) ruled against the bill that proposes the development of the Second Agrarian Reformlaunched from the Executive Power, since it would lack legitimacy and would be against the ideology of the ruling party Peru Libre.
“The proposed Bill of Law responds to a personal initiative of Mr. Zea, in his capacity as Congressman of the Republic, which we do not know if it is a partisan proposal, since it contains aspects within the proposal that do not correspond and are even inconsistent with the ideology of his party”, said the organization in a statement released on networks.
“From the national unions that make up Conveagro, we understand that any proposal for a second agrarian reform that is oriented to the “people” must be agreed with the “people” and therefore must start from a participatory process together with all the agrarian unions of the country, to thus legitimize and make any measure socially viable, something that has not happened so far in this government, which championed the term Second Agrarian Reform to continue doing more of the same”, he added.
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Conveagro also branded the head of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri), Óscar Zea, of having an “agricultural export bias” with Bill No. 6582021-CR. This in relation to his latest statements where he announced that he is considering granting tax benefits to agro-exporters.
“Mr. Zea’s bill proposal is incoherent with the government’s policy, not putting small family farmers at the center of interest, as he himself manifests in his statements these days, where his only brothers are the ‘agro-exporter brothers’ who are going to ‘teach’ small producers to be profitable in exchange for new privileges (tax exemption)“, he pointed.
Zea indicated last week that agro-exporters will receive tax incentives according to the amount of products they acquire from small farmers. She also specified that businessmen will train producers so that they can participate in the international market.
“We request that this bill be dismissed for not responding to government policy or the historical demands of the agrarian unions and rather pose a risk to the initial objectives of the second agrarian reform and the aspirations of millions of farming and peasant families. , which is why a process of participatory construction of this bill is absolutely necessary”, pointed out the union.
