The Minister of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, Andrés Alencastre, indicated this Tuesday that Agro Rural will be able to choose more than one international company for the acquisition of the fertilizers and thus ensure the 2022-2023 agricultural campaign.
He indicated that in this third call there are several measures that are being taken into account such as transparency, technical rigor, price, and that it be comprehensive, where the entire Agriculture sector, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Economy and Finance are involved. and the Comptroller.
“What we need is enough eyes to notice this delicate situation that an urgent process puts us”, he said in an interview on RPP Television.
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In this sense, the minister pointed out that there are 58 countries responding to the third call.
“We already started from July 1 and we have made a comprehensive model where we are all present. We have collected 142 initiatives of interest. That will have its process until the determination of which will be the best, it does not have to be a winner, it can be several companies, because we have the opportunity. So, we say that the urea will arrive for fertilization and that will happen from mid-August onwards.”, he referred.
Likewise, Alencastre ratified that the agricultural campaign will not be lost, which begins its fertilization between September-October.
“Rest assured that urea will arrive for the 2022-2023 agricultural campaign″, he pointed out.
