The legislative period has opened with a shortened procedure that could be useful for the promulgation of laws through executive decrees, prior approval of the Constitutional Court, a unique opportunity to crystallize some thwarted agricultural aspirations with new regulations or update outdated ones. It is an unsurpassed opportunity to strengthen the future, productive and industrial projections of the cocoa tree, whose progress is recorded by exports that rank the country in third place in the world after the colossus of Ivory Coast and Ghana.

The activity of cocoa production is a source of work and wealth from which thousands of Ecuadorians survive with very little means, this is what could quickly reverse the shameful levels of peasant poverty if it had sufficient public and private support reflected in properly targeted and effective incentives. favoring the farmer. Tax credits, current or future, should match the amount of investment in industrialization or in tangible plans for soil regeneration and recovery, reducing cadmium pollution to zero, financed by the users of the juicy chocolate business; that is, to arrange privileges so that they ultimately contribute to the nation’s dominance.

It is time to put an end to the extractivism of cocoa soils, the richest in Ecuador, some with a fertile layer unmatched on the planet, which must be preserved by restoring the nutrients destroyed by successive harvests and increasing the weak coefficient of organic matter, mainly caused by multinational companies interested only for marketing cereal products without adding any value, nor leaving visible profits such as investing in the industrialization of plants for products generated from gold nuggets, preferring instead to install sophisticated factories in nations of a completely foreign gender.

Of what was sold in cocoa beans and derivatives in different places until April 2023, 50% correspond to transnational companies, displacing Ecuadorian businessmen, taking advantage of privileges and advantages such as the low price of foreign currency, without showing effective concern for the erosion of our renewable wealth , its fertile arable land, which is no longer bought, packed and shipped from low-value facilities. The demonstrated power is so great that they are now taking over established, highly technically developed farms with which they are perfecting their control, and in the end they will completely manage the “food of the gods” business.

It is the consumer’s decision to reject chocolates and cocoa substitutes when their privileged raw material comes from places cultivated under conditions of wage slavery, infamous child labor, the use of banned pesticides or plantations created by deforestation that Europe relentlessly pursues, also bit by bit. little by little, other developed countries are joining this healthy policy, while Ecuador, which is poorly promoted, is not tainted by those plagues that the civilized world condemns. (OR)