“There will not only be a shortage of lemon”: what other foods will have a production deficit in Piura?

Piura. Peruvians are concerned about the lemon shortage and its excessive price in the supply centers. However, in addition to this product, specialists warn that there will be a shortage of other staple foods and their prices will also rise. What is it about? To continue; the details.

The Piura Chamber of Commerce reported that the agricultural panorama will suffer more consequences in the coming weeks, since falls are estimated in the production of mangoes (90%), bananas (40%), avocados (50%), grapes (30%) and blueberries (30%). ).

According to the president of the Piura Chamber of Commerce, Javier Bereche, the shortage of products and high prices could exceed the situation of 2017 due to The Coastal Child. For this reason, he urged the Executive to take immediate action to avoid the interruption of the agricultural campaign and not affect the supply of the local market, the formal labor offer, the investments in the sector and the export dynamics.

“We regret that the serious problem of regional agriculture in Piura, an eminently agricultural region, is not on the government’s agenda, despite its importance for the national economy, job creation and social welfare,” he said.

In addition, he said that, as an alternative solution, a financial rescue should be approved that benefits micro, small, medium and large farmers or producers, since they currently cannot meet their financial obligations due to lack of production.

For his part, Reymundo Villareal, president of the Central de Cooperativas Norchira, indicated that, in the cooperatives of the Chira valley, banana production has been reduced due to various factors, among them, the peststhe rainy that devastated plantations and the fusarium disease. “There is not only a shortage of lemon. In our case, we are no longer producing the same,” he stated.