He National Government and several representatives of the Rice sector of the country ended on Monday a meeting in the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism (MINCIT) to deal with the problems that peasants have been denouncing regarding costs and breeding agreements.
On behalf of the government are the Ministers of Agriculture (Martha Carvajalino); Trade (Diana Morales), Hacienda (Germán Ávila) and Interior (Gabriel Rondón); as well as Jorge Calero, vicedefensor of the town; and rusinque sky, industry and commerce superintendent.
(You can read: Rice strike: Balance of the first week of blockades How close is its end?).
At the beginning of the negotiation, Carvajalino said that the Government is interested in solving the crisis that the rice farmers suffer: “I am very optimistic, and I think that in the meeting we have with those who are in mobilization, with the rice people who went to mobilize, we can reach urgent measures“
BLOCKS ARE MAINTAINED
About 8.40 at night the report of rice strike indicated that negotiations on The price continued with the technical table, made up of the Technical Commission of the Ministry of Agriculture and Committee, to make adjustments to the regulatory resolution of the price of green paddy rice.
However, the rroids indicated that it was waiting for the development of the technical table, so – until that moment – no lifting of the national rice strike was carried out.
Blocks remain in:
Tolima: Saldaña Vía that communicates to Espinal and Neiva, Gualanday, Chicoral – Bogotá -Ibagué, Lleida and Natagaina road intersection.
Huila: Campoalegre, Thessaly, entry Neiva Bogotá (toll), Pablo Nuevo Limits of Tolima and Huila.
Cordova: Doctrine sector and los Garitas (Loric), Tierra Alta.
Goal: Cute plain and old via plain.
Casanare: Aguazul
Arauca: Tame
Sucre: La Mojana sector.
Cease: La Jagua de Ibirico, San Alberto, Aguachica.
Santander: Sabana de Torres in the Troncal del Magdalena Medio.
North of Santander: Pedregal.
Valledupar: via Hurtado (Valledupar connection to the Guajira).
Martha Carvajalino, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
He also emphasized that “We are here to save the rice chain, and I think we can all agree on that. In this country, very important chains have been lost, it happened to us with cotton, it happened to us with wheat and that is what cannot happen with rice“
(Besides: ‘The bets we have are land and growth’: minegriciculture).
In the midst of the installation, the lifting of all the blockages scattered in the departments of Tolima, Huila, Meta, Casanare, Córdoba, Arauca, Cesar, Santander, Norte de Santander and Sucre.
The claims of the rice trees
The riceros of the aforementioned departments have been in protest following the price crisis that the sector is going through. In the middle of unemployment, blockades have also been recorded at various strategic points in the country.
Negotiation table between the government and the riceros
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
(You may be interested: Key points of the preliminary agreement reached between the government and the rice guild).
They have denounced that the agreements reached in March with the Ministry of Agriculture were ignored after they went to a strike that lasted nine days. In fact, they claim that from the government they have been postponing the implementation of them.
Among other reasons, Producers claim that they are having estimated losses between 2,500,000 and 2’800,000 pesos per hectare harvestedwhich represents a risk of bankruptcy for small and medium peasants dedicated the cultivation of this cereal, as they have denounced.
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