From reducing tolls to giving land and inputs in Guayas are part of the offers presented in the debate of candidates for the Prefecture

The plans that the candidates for the Guayas Prefecture have in the economic part focus on farmers and how to make their products have good prices and reach more places and for this the offers launched in the middle of the debate that takes place this Sunday 8 January 2023 live, organized by the National Electoral Council (CNE), include providing inputs, land, eliminating intermediaries and reducing the cost of tolls.

The first block of candidates was told that according to article 263 numerals 6 and 7 of the Constitution, the prefectures are responsible for promoting agricultural activity and provincial productive activities, what are the main productive activities that currently support the province of Guayas? And in what way will it support especially the agricultural, agricultural and fishing sector?

• Andrés Guschmer, from Renovación Total (Reto), list 33, said that he came across a producer who has not been able to sell his harvest for two years, and for this reason he proposes a comprehensive reactivation plan that allows the small farmer to sell these products: fish, cocoa, coffee, rice, everything we produce, under a denomination of origin.
• Édgar León, from Avanza, list 8, mentioned that he will focus on giving loans to producers in the province’s agricultural sector so that all their systems can be reactivated if they are out of use and strengthen existing ones.
• Richard Intriago, Democratic Left (ID), list 12, expressed that the main productive activities are “on the ground”, that there is no way to sell anything. But he asked to talk about the real economy, about the mother who juggles to support a home. “The candidates do not know what is happening in the countryside, we have to recover the rural and urban economy, I will be the bridge between the countryside and the city.” “Work with the irrigation system, help them in production and thus bring the product to homes throughout the province of Guayas in the best way,” he said.
• Danilo Félix Ordóñez, Democracia Sí, list 20, said that the peasant “we are going to give him credit, we are going to give him the land, we are going to assume it and we will redistribute it and with that matter we are going to generate employment. If we start to manage biomass, we produce electricity and that electricity lowers the amount of what they consume by $4 or $5 million in electricity a year, there we will generate a large job market compensating for that energy that we are going to give to industrialists”.
• Marcela Aguiñaga, from the Citizen Revolution (RC), list 5, offered to create a Public Company for Sustainable and Productive Development with centers for agricultural mechanization and storage and marketing for the main products. She assured that her programs will focus on the media and small producers to whom agricultural inputs that are no longer delivered today will be delivered again. For the ranchers, she proposes creating the commercialization center for live cattle as it exists in Santo Domingo. In addition, she stressed that her program “Caring for lives” includes recognizing women and their work at home as part of the economic activities of the province and that it will promote training in places such as “public washing machines.”
• Héctor Vanegas, Green Revolutionary and Democratic Ethical Movement (Mover), list 35, proposes a “province for all”, where the small entrepreneur has a business, the crab can grow, the rice farmer can sell at a fair price. He offers to give free seeds of rice and corn to small producers; I support a thousand entrepreneurs so that they can have their businesses; and 4,000 new jobs with the promotion of tourism through international cooperation.
• Juan Cervantes Gómez, Popular Unity, list 2, responded that his provincial government will put an end to “corrupt privations” and denounced the high costs of the Guayas tolls at this time. “We are going to reduce the toll by 50% and we are going to reactivate agriculture,” he stressed. Another of his proposals will be to create a Public Company to import seeds and agricultural inputs at low cost and to provide credit to producers. In addition, the realization of free fairs for the commercialization of their products. (YO)