This autumn-winter cycle 2023-24 the Sinaloan producers they are facing 3 serious crises:
The wrong vision of the Federal government regarding the agriculture commercial, which has led them to eliminate more than 30 programs to support the field and disappear institutions, such as ASERCA and the National Development Finance.
This erroneous vision led to SEGALMEX to implement in Sinaloa he most disastrous marketing scheme in historywhat gender economic losses more than 6 thousand producersof which there are still more than 100 small producers who are still waiting for payment.
And this year, we are 2 weeks away from starting the corn and wheat threshing and a marketing scheme has not yet been defined, there are no Bases, agriculture by contract, nor guarantee prices, that means that for the 6th consecutive year they did not care about the agriculture commercial, nor because it is an election year, things are that serious.
A second crisis is the collapse of international prices. Compared to 2 years ago, corn prices have lost 46% of their value and in the case of wheat they have dropped 56%.
As of today, even with the Base proposal of 76 dollars for corn, the income to the producer is $4,285 per ton and in the case of bread wheat at $4,163 per ton.
In both cases it is insufficient to cover production costs and achieve profitability that allows producers to support their families until the next harvest.
The third crisis is the lack of water in the dams and the drought. Sinaloa's 11 dams are at 12.4% of their capacity, compared to the 33.8% average of the last 30 years.
However, there are 5 dams with red lightssince they are located below the state average: Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (7.7%), Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez (9.8%), Adolfo López Mateos (7.2%), Sanalona (9.9%) and José López Portillo (11.7%) .
We had not seen these dam levels since 2012, when the dams were at 9% because a year before, due to low temperatures, more than 700 thousand hectares had to be replanted, which emptied the dams.
To aggravate the situation, 10 municipalities in Sinaloa face extreme drought: Ahome, Angostura, Concordia, Escuinapa, Guasave, Mazatlán, Mocorito, Rosario, Salvador Alvarado and Navolato; and 8 municipalities have exceptional drought, which is the most serious level of drought: Badiraguato, Cosalá, Culiacán, Choix, Elota, El Fuerte, San Ignacio and Sinaloa.
That means that 100% of the territory and the 3 million Sinaloans face extreme drought and exceptional drought. Last year in comparison, only 2 municipalities were abnormally dry, 6 had moderate drought and 10 had severe drought.
These 3 crises that the Sinaloa countryside is going through, the erroneous vision of the Federal Government regarding commercial agriculture, the collapse of international prices and the drought, threaten the profitability of producers and the leadership in food production. .
It must be remembered that Sinaloa is the guarantor of the country's food sovereignty, since we provide 12 million tons of food, but, in addition, 10.6% of our economy and 14% of jobs depend directly on primary activities and that means that everything that Whatever happens to the countryside, it directly impacts the economy of the cities.
Therefore, I ask you, dear reader: with BRUNETTEthe agriculture Is it more profitable or has the crisis in the countryside deepened?
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