in the frustrated dialogue table that was installed in the Junín Regional Directorate of Agriculture, the leaders of the protesters exposed the 4 points that make up their platform of struggle and pointed out that what they are looking for are State policies that help them overcome the increases in fertilizers and other inputs that have caused the cost of investment to rise even more.
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“They told us that we were going to benefit from S/350 as a subsidy, as if the agrarian sector were begging or asking for alms from a State. We need investment like any entrepreneur, we are not asking you to support us with seeds, give us a kilo of fertilizer or 350 soles; To plant what is potato, it was necessary to spend S/12,000 to S/14,000 per hectare and now S/22,000 is being invested for the cost of urea, phosphate, nitrate and other inputs, in addition to the cost of fuel, he said. .
He also alluded to the resignation in December of last year of the former deputy minister. Development of Family Farming and Agrarian Infrastructure and Irrigation, José Alberto Muro Ventura, “Back then we raised our problem with Deputy Minister Muro, but no agreement was reached due to his withdrawal. He called me and told me “here the Government is incapable and I do not want to get involved with the decisions I am making”, he told me, “there are 38 ′ million soles to subsidize fertilizers” (Muro) mentioned that figure to me, “he said. he.
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The leader of the farmers was quite uncomfortable about the abandonment in which he considers this sector has been had in recent months, when the global crisis has hit them hardest. “That the State stop thinking that we are the last resources of the market at a national level, we are the same as any businessman, we are entrepreneurs. To sow for each hectare we spend 20 thousand soles, here in the sowing region 350 thousand hectares multiply by 20 thousand what is needed. Freight used to cost Lima 1.1, now it is 1.5 or even 1.6 and that raises the cost of production ″ he stated.
