Food shortage in Puno due to drought: a problem that farmers show to the Government

The farmers in the region Fist they continue to depend on the will of nature. In the years that it rains, they can get good productionand, if not, they spend a period of food shortage. The Republic arrived this Tuesday, June 20, at the town of Marca Esqueña, Culta sector, middle area of ​​the district of Acora. Here the neighbors showed the little production they obtained this year due to the drought during the agricultural period of 2022. Given this, they asked the Government for support to work with technical irrigation.

Rodolfo Condori Barrientosleader of the presidents of the communities of Acora, said that this year citizens could go hungry. He showed how the absence of rain during the previous agricultural cycle affected the production of the dad. After digging up a plant, from the completely dry soil, he took out the tubers: small and some wormy.

“Many of the foods come out small. Some you could serve as a seed, and the rest that is wormy does not work, ”she explained.

Likewise, another citizen of the area explained how the quinoa production, flagship product of the altiplano region, was affected. In the midst of the crops, he said that this food did not reach maturity due to the lack of rain and the arrival of frost, so its production was frustrated. “It did not reach to become grainIt’s dry,” he lamented.

Puno: drought also affects livestock

According to the lieutenant governor of the Marca Esqueña populated center, Nestor Quispe, last year the residents cut the alfalfa four times. However, this year they did not make more than one harvest; on the contrary, the plant only grew approximately 20 centimeters in height, when the regular average is 70 centimeters.

Likewise, the oats, which are also used to feed livestock, did not reach the expected size, so citizens warn that they will lack fodder. Against this, they stated that they are forced to sell their animals and at low prices.

Puno: farmers and ranchers ask for technical irrigation

The residents of the town of Acora They assured that they are a sample of what farmers and ranchers in the Puno region suffer when there is drought. Given this, they urged local authorities and the central government to support them with agricultural projects so that they produce their food with technical irrigation.

“Come Dina Boluarte, to see the reality of the field. Not even here with Punche Peru comes. Here the peasant brother has this need, for him to see how agriculture can be improved, how we are going to survive in the face of this reality ”, concluded the head of the presidents of the Acora communities, Rodolfo Condori.