The government portfolio was forced to renew the declaration as a result of “the current agroclimatic situation.”
Following a report from the Agricultural Emergency Commission, based on a study by the National Institute of Meteorology (inumet), he Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP) decided to renew for another 5 months (150 days) the declaration of an agricultural emergency throughout the national territory as of today, Monday, April 24.
According to the official resolution of the portfolio, as a result of “the current agroclimatic situation” the extended measure will be maintained for the areas of livestock, dairy, horticulture, fruit growing, agriculture, beekeeping, poultry farming and forestry, which were covered until now. .
According to the minister fernando mattos, some plans will continue to be effective, like the rations, and the one with bales, which is “with calls on the street so that suppliers can provide much-needed fodder to spend the winter.” In turn, he remarked that benefit instruments from the National Guarantee System (SiGa), and the discounts in public rates will be linked to the extension of the agricultural emergency until September.
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The head of the MGAP, maintains the expectation of a “normalization” of the precipitations from the month of May to “replenish” the water reservoirs in the soil, in order to recover “all the productive that has suffered a lot with this climatic reality“.
Mattos assured that the government has allocated “many millions of dollars” from “payment waivers, tax shifts, financing and subsidies” to alleviate the situation of water deficit, and several of these instruments will be maintained to help those producers “who They are suffering a lot from this situation.”
What were the assistance instruments up to now?
Since the current agricultural emergency was decreed, the MGAP has been adding several additional aid measures to the affected producers. Some of them are:
- Extension of the maturities of bps until May 31, for farms.
- He Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM) will grant an economic refund of 100% (up to 25,000 pesos) to those rural producers who have purchased and installed solar water pumps.
- Colonization will not increase the rent this year.
- The joint venture reduced the cost of electricity for irrigation tasks by 15%, with an estimated cost for the state company of 2.9 million dollars.
- Grazing is enabled on routes with a permit issued by MGAP zones.
- FAE loans and credits with Microfinance Republic with subsidized rates and extended terms.
- Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) of the agricultural sector can access guarantees from the SiGapaying a single subsidized commission of 0.6% per year for working capital credits.
- The MGAP develops a support operation for micro-producers through the purchase of rations with a subsidy of 75%. It is estimated that they will be about 10,000 tons for the entire national territory.
Source: Ambito
