everything does indicate that the arrest of the president of Campesinos Unidos de Sinaloa was counterproductive, Baltazar Valdez Armentía. At first, he provoked the indignation of the producers and, secondly, he ended up being released due to lack of elements to link him to the process for the seizure of Pemex de Topo and the Culiacán International Airport. This made Valdez Armentía’s leadership gain strength to the point that leaders and wheat producers joined the fight. Now it is not only the corn growers those who ask for a better price of 5,457 pesos for a ton of grain, but also those wild. The latter had stayed out of the fight, but the way things are, they are going to get into it.
The producers from Salvador Alvarado received an unpleasant surprise a few days before starting to thresh sorghum. This is because, according to Mauro Rosario Angulo Cervantes, president of the Municipal Peasant Committee number 20 in Salvador Alvarado, the ergot fungus affected several properties, and to save the crops, farmers had to invest up to almost 10 thousand pesos to “burn” the pest, another blow to their pockets. As if this were not enough, the yields are falling far below expectations, with prices ranging between 3,400 and 3,600. Profits, according to the agricultural leader, remain uncertain.
A major producers of mango in EscuinapaBonifacio Bustamante Hernández considered that the current fruit season will be regular. The flowering was not what they expected and that affected production. In the last week they began cutting and processing mangoes for export, competing with other states in the country. The activation of mango packaging generates thousands of jobs that provide an incentive to the families of the municipal capital of Escuinapa and El Rosario, as well as the surrounding communities.
Because The phenomenon of drought has a tendency to become more serious every year, as a consequence of climate change, in the Petatlán Irrigation Module in Guasave They are anticipating all that. The assembly approved requesting a loan for 6 million pesos to meet their needs, including water rescues. Arnoldo Armenta Morales, president of the aforementioned module, pointed out that part of that money will go to the rehabilitation of wells because right now they have some that are inoperative and the liquid they get from there is of quality, especially in these times when it is scarce.
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