Puno and Apurimac: Farmers left without funding for planting and harvesting

Over S/8 million per loans for funding bells planting, collecting and raising livestock from small producers in the south of the country, mainly in regions such as Puno and ApurimacCesar Quispe, president of Agrobanco, said.

Compared to loans provided to manufacturers in 2022, their fall in Puno alone reached 77%, and in the case of Andahailasthe capital Apurimac, the fall is 46%, with this money it would be possible to finance the work of 1150 people.

This problem was caused by the blockade in the south of the country, where they demand the departure of Dina Boluarte, new elections and the closure of the Congress, which prevented Agrobanco representatives from visiting farms and plots.

Farmers unable to harvest due to lack of money

“We saw that many growers failed to plant no rain and others because they didn’t have the money to buy resources. Now we can not go to places due to road restrictions, ”he said.

Due to lack of money, some tasks could not be completed during the harvest season, as is the case in the department of Madre de Dios, where “the papaya was planted but could not be harvested and fails”.

It’s not just the placement of loans that has been hit, debt could rise to 0.5% in the coming days because ranchers in Puno have failed to meet their payment schedule. There are 15,000 beneficiaries in this region.

“They started to fall behind, mostly ranchers who pay us to sell their cattlebut they have not been able to sell it, or have done so in a very limited way, and by keeping them in a paddock, they have to continue to feed it, and this creates additional costs for them, ”he clarified.

Data

According to Agrobanko, in Fist S / 7.5 million were not placed only in January of this year, the money was intended for 800 manufacturers.

In Apurimac, where the victims are concentrated in Andahualas, S$1.2 million was not placed, the money was intended for 350 small agricultural producers.