Throughout the framework of his go to to Ñuble, the place he introduced the general public account of his 2023 administration in Chillán and later participated within the inauguration of the Ferrero course of plant in Ñiquén, the Minister of Agriculture, Esteban Valenzuela, reaffirmed to La Discusión the federal government dedication to reservoir tasks within the Ñuble Area, significantly with Zapallar and La Punilla.
Past the self-promotion of the general public account, the Secretary of State emphasised key areas, reminiscent of post-fire and post-flood productive restoration, meals safety and sovereignty, phytosanitary safety, rural improvement and water safety.
Meals security
He talked about that, after the disasters, “the financial restoration bonds, and this was a mandate from the President, had been related. It was not 500 thousand pesos or one million, it was between 1 and 5 million pesos, and within the case of affected individuals who had formalization, they reached as much as 10 million pesos by way of Corfo or Sercotec and there the emphasis was positioned on annual crops, on working with potatoes, rice, it has all the time been finished with wheat and corn, however the legume phase was additionally added, the place we did obtain some outcomes, particularly in beans, though we’re owed in lentils and chickpeas. So, this pillar of meals safety work has translated into very concrete outcomes, right here there have been drops within the costs of just about all meals, for instance, potatoes; and there was additionally excessive funding in annual crops with this new Indap program, which helps hundreds of farmers who’ve technical help and dealing capital.”
Water safety
Concerning water storage infrastructure for irrigation, Valenzuela highlighted two reservoir tasks on the nationwide degree.
“The excellent news within the area is the 2 reservoirs which are prepared to maneuver to the bidding part within the coming months, with a selected calendar, throughout the federal government of President Boric: the Zapallar, within the case of Ñuble, and Bollenar, within the O’Higgins Area, and that’s excellent news. “El Zapallar is 10 thousand hectares that will probably be irrigated and can present irrigation safety to lots of of farmers within the southern a part of the Ñuble Area.”
Consulted by La Punilla, he recalled “the failure of the primary concession within the authorities of (President Sebastián) Piñera, which resulted in trial. The session course of needed to be redone and agreements had been reached with the folks of San Fabián de Alico, who had been excluded from the good thing about the irrigation of the reservoir, which was a dangerous omission; and in addition with environmental teams, which isn’t to everybody’s liking, and agreements had been reached there. So, what the DOH, of the Ministry of Public Works, is doing now’s quantifying these agreements or annexes and within the coming months the itinerary of the brand new concession for Punilla will probably be recognized, that’s, the MOP continues working, incorporating the observations of that 12 months and a half that the brand new authorities took within the dialogues that came about with communities and actors.”
Cotrisa Function
Following criticism of Cotrisa’s position within the wheat and corn markets, the place farmers preserve that the state firm acts late, and when it does, it has no affect on costs, the top of the agricultural sector asserted that, “We’re extra energetic, allow us to do not forget that the federal government of (President) Piñera made it nearly disappear, took away all of the capital, 9 billion pesos, and our authorities recapitalized it, final 12 months with $2 billion and this 12 months, with $4 billion, Corfo, and that has allowed Cotrisa to enter, each final 12 months and this 12 months, to purchase wheat and corn, this 12 months extra wheat, final 12 months extra corn; Thankfully this 12 months the chicken business has been shopping for corn on the CAI value, which is the equal of the import value, however due to the spring we had, all our crops fell and the corn was somewhat moist, however there Cotrisa performs an necessary position.”
He defended Cotrisa’s present position and said that his intervention did assist. “That is what the actors themselves say, nonetheless, his buying intervention is proscribed. Nevertheless it served, as a result of at a given time when there have been no buying powers, it was related for Maule and actors from Ñuble and the identical factor is clearly said by the corn growers, that one in every of their nice requests is exactly that Cotrisa, when the season begins, are available in to purchase, and people additional pesos that Cotrisa gives assist the businesses’ supply come nearer to the choice import prices, which is what open economies like ours impose.”
Vintners
Concerning the troublesome state of affairs for winegrowers and criticism for the shortage of transparency within the publication of grape buy costs, Valenzuela identified that, “final 12 months, the world wine business had a drop, a median of 25% of overstock, as a result of world financial disaster, with these blows from the battle and popping out of the pandemic, then, the 2023 season was very dangerous, with grape costs in lots of circumstances beneath $100 and this 12 months, fortunately, it’s over 20 % enhance in wine exports and higher pay. And concerning the costs, we’ve got despatched experiences to some teams that criticize, the costs are printed; Alternatively, the SAG has initiated greater than 40 sanctioning investigations in opposition to some vineyards that had been promoting liquors reminiscent of wine, with fruit bushes and never complying with authorized rules, and in addition the indications to those that don’t publish their costs correctly.
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