While the state government headed by Ruben Rocha Moya advances in an agreement for the marketing of white cornthe plan for the pledge of the bean. It is an urgent issue that should not be neglected, because in desperation, producers are already looking for options that will allow them to quickly pay off the contracted credits and not wait three months waiting for a price that may well not be given. There is as an example the 700 thousand tons of corn still in the warehouse and that the government has not finished selling at profitable prices. The fear of bean producers is losing time, effort and even pledged production.
The negotiations to define the price of the ton of wheat They already started. Yesterday the officials of the Secretary of Agriculture, industrialists and producers. They say that Manuel Hernández, national president of the Wheat Product System, turned all colors when he saw the president of Campesinos Unidos de Sinaloa, Baltazar Valdez, at the meeting. This ended with the approach of $34 as the base price for a ton of cereal, one dollar less than last year. They say they did a lot to Valdez. It is said that the position of Manuel Hernández and the Secretary of Agriculture, Jaime Montes, is someone else's shame. Surrender at its finest.
At risk of being sold over the counter are 3 million tons of corn in Sinaloa, because at the moment the prices have not been established, which if they were not guaranteed would force a large part of the producers, as in 2023, to resort to this means, which this year offers prices of just over 4 thousand pesos per ton , a figure that does not guarantee profits, a direct blow for producers who plant on rented land, as commented by Manuel Gumaro López, president of Independent Producers of Sinaloa.
The fact that all the dams in the state add up to just 12.6 percent storage places 2024 as the third driest year of the last 29, where 2012 has been the most critical in that period, with only 9.5 percent. , while in 2003 they presented 11.5. Ricardo Rodríguez Camarena, head of Irrigation District 063 of the Conagua in Guasavepointed out that the good thing is that in the irrigation modules they were more strict with the measures and strategies to take care of the water, so the user was given a volume of water for a certain time to irrigate the plot and they were aware of when the It was time for the next one, since they were forced to apply better supervision and it worked.
And no one stops the movement. Ejidatarios of the community of San Miguel de la Atarjea, Escuinapa, They held a meeting yesterday and agreed to block the construction of irrigation canals next week. There are six ejidatarios affected, but everyone who makes up the ejido joined the cause, since they will not allow abuse by the state authorities. They point out that the work is progressing and they have not carried out an appraisal to determine compensation. To make way for the canal, they have cut down dozens of mango trees that for many years were the source of economic income for the ejidatarios. The conflict is just beginning.
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