With a harsh tone, the president of the Ñuble Farmers Affiliation, Carlos González Mufdi, criticized the omission of the La Punilla reservoir within the public account of the Minister of Agriculture, Esteban Valenzuela, questioning the federal government’s dedication to the undertaking, whose tender has been postponed six occasions, with the purpose of incorporating the social and environmental calls for raised by the neighborhood of San Fabián.
“He doesn’t reaffirm the La Punilla undertaking, he blames the earlier authorities, however one assumes that these new authorities, who criticize the earlier course of, assume to enhance the dangerous that was finished, so one expects him to say what they’re doing.” doing to enhance, highlighting the advantages of the reservoir, nevertheless it says nothing regarding that. He solely says that they’re working, however with none energy, with out conviction,” he lashed out.
González acknowledged that “the minister doesn’t have the political will nor does he have the energy to provide La Punilla the assist that it wants; Within the public account, particularly in Chillán, he ought to have delivered a strong sign, that’s what we farmers anticipated, however he didn’t give any, he solely talked regarding the Zapallar reservoir. He made an enormous mistake: the good need of the Ñuble Area is La Punilla.”
The union chief warned that the federal government is delaying the US$369 million megaproject. “It’s like an elastic band, that the minister and the federal government are stretching it and we’re going to get to December and we’re going to see some protest in San Fabián and it’s going to be postponed once more. My private imaginative and prescient is that this authorities has no real interest in shifting La Punilla ahead, it’s going to delay it and this can occur for the subsequent authorities,” he lamented.
Likewise, he added vehemently: “I name on the minister to be clear and exact, and say whether or not or not he’s with La Punilla, and if he’s, when will we place the primary stone? Let the federal government say whether or not La Punilla is eliminated by this authorities or not, as a result of we farmers favor to know the reality and never get false illusions.”
Meals security
The helmsman of native agriculture additionally pointed to complacency in issues of meals safety and sovereignty. “The minister says that the drop in meals manufacturing is behind us, as a result of based on him, extra is being produced; However what meals safety are they speaking regarding? If we’re producing much less and fewer. We produce fewer and fewer lentils, fewer beans, fewer chickpeas, that are already disappearing; This yr wheat manufacturing goes to go down, rapeseed manufacturing goes down, all conventional crops are taking place and the minister says that we’re producing extra daily. I do not know what world the minister lives in. We’d have preferred to listen to in his public account some thought of agricultural insurance policies for subsequent yr or an settlement with the banks to inject assets and supply credit score at preferential charges for farmers, however there was none of that.
Carlos González acknowledged that, “though potatoes are vital, globally, there are far more vital issues than finishing up the cultivation of potatoes; It’s far more vital for residents that it’s a complete, that we’re producing extra meat, extra milk, extra wheat; that we aren’t going to rely on bringing issues from exterior as a result of we aren’t able to producing them, having all of the situations to take action. However the minister insists that they’ve elevated potato manufacturing due to the bonuses and help they’ve delivered by Indap, nevertheless it seems that Indap farmers contribute little or no to the agricultural product, I make clear that it is rather vital to assist Indap customers, However resting on the concept that Indap goes to avoid wasting meals safety is an amazing mistake.”
Cotrisa
Requested concerning the recapitalization of Cotrisa that Minister Valenzuela highlighted, the chief questioned the outcomes. “I ask the minister, what number of quintals of wheat did Cotrisa purchase in Maule, Ñuble, Biobío and La Araucanía? Who did they purchase from? How a lot did they make investments? And there one can see that the impact available on the market was null.”
He acknowledged that the present administration has injected assets into Cotrisa ($6 billion between 2023 and 2024), in contrast to the earlier authorities, which decapitalized the state firm. “However the minister can not cover behind what the earlier authorities did, if he’s in that place it’s to make issues higher, he mustn’t solely have changed what there was, but additionally elevated it. We’ve already raised this with the authorities, in order that Cotrisa can act within the nationwide market, it wants at the very least $20 billion, to have the ability to transfer the market and for the mills to fret a little bit. With $6 billion they aren’t going to do something. We hope we do not make it to November, when harvests start on the coast and that we’re in the identical circumstance, now farmers are sowing with great uncertainty,” he concluded.
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