Within the framework of the “National Congress of Peasant Rounds”, the Minister of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, Víctor Maita, announced today that the Executive is evaluating the incorporation of fertilizers in the Fuel Stabilization Fund, due to the prolongation of the high prices of these agricultural inputs.
“Today we are also evaluating (in the Government) that fertilizers be incorporated into the stabilization fund for fuel prices, and we have been discussing this with the leaders of the peasant rounds, because this increase (of fertilizers) seems to be is going to extend and we have to guarantee the agricultural season 2021-2022 ″, Held.
In his address to dozens of delegations of ronderos, the minister acknowledged the crisis facing the agricultural sector due to the rise in the prices of fertilizers in the market and its impact on the activities of small producers.
To mitigate these effects, Minister Maita reiterated the Government’s decision to approve an emergency decree that allocates S / 250 million to grant a financial subsidy of up to S / 1,300 agricultural producers to reduce the impacts of increased fertilizers.
Likewise, in his presentation he ratified the Government’s firm commitment to carry out the Second Agrarian Reform to serve small farmers in the countryside and contribute to improving the quality of life of peasant families.
In the same way, he expressed that one of the objectives of the Second Agrarian Reform is to guarantee water security and the role of the State as Midagri It should be to continue promoting the planting and harvesting of water, the construction of dams, dams, technical irrigation systems, micro reservoirs and other actions to promote the activities of small producers.
He also specified the Government’s decision to have included the Second Agrarian Reform within the general government policy as the central axis, in which 97% of small producers represent the more than 2.2 million units of agricultural units nationwide.
Finally, he asserted that it is the Government’s policy to improve services by the entities that make up the agricultural and irrigation sector, in order to meet the demands of family farming producers, thereby seeking to reassess their contribution to food security. and nutritional.
