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Midagri will have until October 31 to buy urea

Midagri will have until October 31 to buy urea

Almost two months after starting the selection process for an international provider of urea and with a third contest underway, the Government extended yesterday until October 31 of this year the deadline for the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri), through rural agriculture, Buy the fertilizer nitrogenous and distribute it to the producers in order to guarantee the agricultural campaign 2022-2023. The previous purchase validity expired on August 15.

About, Climaco Cardenas, President of I agree, pointed out that this date change corroborates that “there is no technical team with the capacity to work on the issue of fertilizers.”

The rule published yesterday also authorizes Midagri to cover the financial and operating expenses required by the logistics operation, delivery support and national distribution of nitrogenous urea. The fund available to the ministry is S / 348 million 887,735.

The fertilizer that the Government will buy will be subsidized in favor of small producers. Photo: composition/EFE/La República

It should be remembered that Rural Agriculture had until July 28 to choose the international provider of urea; however, this period was extended until yesterday, July 31. However, until the closing of the edition of this note, the entity had not yet reported the results of the contest.

Budget for new purchase of urea

Yesterday, a supplementary credit was also approved for S/347,261,890 million in favor of Midagri for a second purchase of fertilizers. This time it will be distributed to farmers with up to 10 hectares of crops. The current purchase is aimed at farmers with up to five hectares.

New deadline for the PPA

The Government large until December 15, 2022 the period to incorporate new producers to the Register of Agricultural Producers (PPA), from which the list of beneficiaries is determined of fertilizer subsidized. The previous term expired in September.

The Midagri has registered only 419,618 farmers, of which 135,520 will be beneficiaries of urea. Nationwide, there are more than 2.2 million afarmers.

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Priority. Agrarian unions ask the Parliament speed in the approval of the bill No. 2710/2021-PE that authorizes the Midagri to market fertilizers. They sent a letter to the president of the Congress Lady Camones.

Source: Larepublica

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