December 27, 2024, 18:31 PM
December 27, 2024, 18:31 PM
With the commitment to analyze the rice production costs, work on granting credits and guarantee the supply of diesel, This Friday afternoon the meeting between the Government and the producers of the Beni department concluded.
The meeting, which took place since Thursday in the town of Casarabe and ended with technical tables this Friday, will continue within two weeks in the municipality of Montero, Santa Cruz, where the Government will meet with the rice mills of the Integrated North, the main grain collection and distribution center in the country.
Ana Isabel Ortiz, researcher and former manager of the National Federation of Rice Cooperatives (Fenca), indicated that on Thursday, government officials headed by the vice minister of Agricultural Development, Alvaro Mollinedo, They visited the production fields in the Casarabe area, where the production costs.
“He said that he is going to analyze it (costs) with his technical team and has also committed to seeing the supply of diesel for the harvest. And then you go to work, for the (next) year in which credit issue, so that it can be accessed by the entire sector,” Ortiz mentioned.
The researcher maintained that the high prices of rice, at this time, are due to the so-called ‘irrigated rice’, which has better quality and higher production cost. “The bulk of the economical or dry rice It will start coming out in March, with the harvest,” he explained.
Even though you are registering good rainy season, Ortiz pointed out that there was a reduction of one 30% in this year’s sowing. According to data from the Ministry of Productive Development, the national harvest fell from 699,142 tons in 2023 to 433,050 tons in 2024, an insufficient volume to cover the domestic demand estimated at 415,033 tons.
At the same time, the former manager of Fenca stated that a roadmap will be developed to prevent rice smuggling. The devaluation of the Bolivian currency encourages smugglers to take grain to consumers in Peru and Argentina, who pay better.
Government bodies such as Emapa, Iniaf and YPFB.
