Hundreds of farmers from Alto Cunas protested outside the Regional Government of Junín and blocked Real de Huancayo Street with heavy machinery, to demand that Governor Zósimo Cárdenas fulfill his promises within the framework of the ‘agrarian revolution’, which consists of the delivery of machinery, construction of bridges and canals.
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“All the works are going to the central jungle and not to the mountains, we want water for agriculture. “There are 3 to 4 thousand irrigators who are affected,” said a leader from San Juan de Iscos. According to the residents of Santo Domingo de Cachi, on September 9, 2024, Governor Zósimo Cárdenas committed to the damming of five lagoons, to have the water resource stored that will be used in the dry season, to the improvement of the main canal, a pool of machinery and construction of a bridge.
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Agreements
About 10 community leaders had a dialogue table with the authorities and agreed that the GRJ will deliver a pool of machinery, in addition to those that already exist in the place on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, the delivery will have a roller , backhoe, motor grader and two dump trucks.
It will provide 4 thousand gallons of fuel for the machinery until the scheduled work is completed, as well as cement and iron for the construction of the abutments of the Huachuas bridge. The GRJ also committed to deliver the nine-lagoon dam maintenance IOARR by November 28.
