Agricultural producers in Fintales denounced that they have been losing their Mango crops for lack of marketsituation that has led them to an economic and social crisis that qualify as unsustainable.
Peasants say that, in previous years, the Sowing traditional items as beans, bananas, guineos, cassava, sweet potato and corn allowed them to support their families and supply the market binational
However, after the implementation of an official project for the production of Mangosthey were forced to change their cultivation under the Promise of financingpayment facilities and safe markets that never materialized.
“Today we don’t have to sell or what to eat. Mangos rot On the ground and we are left with the debts on“said one of the affected farmers.
According to the producers, during these seven years the abundant mangoes It has ended in landfillsbecause they do not have marketing channels, which also generates health risks for the spread of flies and other pests.
Debts
The pressure of the agricultural bank and accumulated debts they have affected health Physics and emotional of many families, who report that despair has resulted in episodes of anxiety, high blood pressure and stress -related diseases.
Farmers point to Special Fund for Agricultural Development (FEDA), to the Dominican Agrarian Institute (IAD), to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Indrhi of having them abandoned to your fatealthough it was these institutions that promoted the project.
In that sense, they make a DIRECT CALL TO THE PRESIDENT Luis Abinader to intervene urgently, condone debts and offer real production and marketing alternatives. “They cannot pretend to take away the land for a debt that the same State forced us to assume,” they said.
Producers insist that the province of Pedernales Think big with the Tourism development that is projected, but warn that without solutions for agriculture there will be no Sustainable future For border communities.
