He agricultural sector faces the worst crisis in decades and the most affected are small farmers, those who have less than 10 hectares of crops and belong to the family agriculture. This group includes nearly two million farmers produce 56% of the food consumed daily in the country.
In accordance with Eduardo ZegarraGrade researcher, this agriculture is the one that has become the most impoverished and decapitalized in the last three years, without the measures applied by successive governments having done much to support it.
According to the expert, the only bond assigned to the sector during the pandemic (rural bond) had severe coverage problems and arrived quite late. While the bonds to face the fertilizer crisis have been improving somewhat in coverage, but they have been oriented inadequately, since they were managed as a social and not a productive bond.
In this context, Zegarra points out that the most advisable thing at this time is to implement a agricultural capitalization bond aimed at all farmers currently registered in the Agricultural Producer Register (PPA). This tool currently has approximately 1.9 million registered farmers, of which approximately half are women.
“The bonus must be an equal amount and without distinctions per registered farmer, let’s say S/1,000, which brings the cost of the measure to S/1,900 million,” Zegarra estimated in an article published in the magazine Common.
In that sense, he recalled that at FAE Agro In 2020, S/2,000 million was assigned, of which only S/200 million was used. “The remaining resources can be used to fully finance this bonus, which would be compensatory and also productive in nature, encouraging many to be encouraged to plant a little more in an unfavorable climate context,” Zegarra asserted.
“An agricultural capitalization bond is a crucial measure to concretely tell our farmers that in our society we appreciate their work and their ability to feed us, even in the most adverse conditions,” he concluded.
Source: Larepublica
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