Angelica Enciso L.
Newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, May 17, 2022, p. 9
Veracruz coffee growers warned that for the production of the aromatic they face a one hundred percent increase in the cost of the fertilizers necessary to raise their harvest to profitable levels, for which they asked to be included in the distribution program of this input of the federal government.
Before the announcement of the expansion of the Fertilizer Program and an emerging plan for the production of organic fertilizer, they asked that the entity be included, in order to support farmers and associations that make the organic fertilizer that they apply to their coffee plantations.
It is very convenient to consider a fertilization program subsidizing small coffee growers of up to 5 hectares, with support of at least 60 percent of the price of the fertilizer.
proposed, in a letter addressed to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Veracruz Coffee Product System State Committee, the National Coordinator of Coffee Organizations and the National Union of Coffee Producers of the CNC, among other organizations.
They seek profitable harvests
They remembered that For several years we have had problems in coffee production due to the rust fungus and low prices. For the current cycle there have been better prices and it is expected that they will not decline for the next harvest
, they explained. They added that there is a lot of interest in doing good fertilization and increasing coffee production, which would result in higher incomes for producers, creation of more jobs in the coffee field, and both results will bring more well-being to the families of this branch and, in addition, a greater income of foreign currency from exports
.
