With Punche Peru Agro: how will you increase agricultural production in the country?

The government introduced the program With Punche Peru Agroto promote the agricultural sector, which includes livestock and Agriculture. The sector created 4.2 million jobs, and in December, when the conflict began, growth fell by almost 1% due to a fall in the production of products such as rice fields, potatoes and sweet potatoes.

There are three main directions aimed at improving the irrigation infrastructure, promoting loans agricultural and agricultural producers; and strengthening competitiveness.

IRRIGATION INFRASTRUCTURE

One of the main activities of the reactivation plan is the implementation of repair work on the infrastructure of 17,850 irrigation systems in 23 departments with a total length of 63,784 kilometers of treatment channels, drains and micro-reservoirs.

The measure will be implemented through the executive cores and generate over 3.1 million wages with an investment of SGD 330 million.

The actions will directly contribute to agricultural production on 1.6 million hectares of land. productive areasaffecting more than 2 million farming families.

In this sense, SGD 469.7 million will be directed towards the implementation of the Optimization, Minor Expansion, Rehabilitation and Replacement (IOARR) investment, which includes 905 irrigation rehabilitation projects with 1,420 km canal extensions in 16 departments. Also included are 148 activities in 12 departments with the construction of 645 lakes for crops and water harvesting. The measure will benefit agricultural production on 134,934 hectares of productive land, affect 85,179 farming families, and generate more than 2.6 million wages.

Thus, investment in hydraulic infrastructure will increase production by 1.7 million hectares, benefiting 2.1 million families and generating 5.7 million wages.

BUSINESS PLANS

Another activity to encourage small producers is the funding of 1,086 business plans worth SGD 207.7 million to finance producer enterprises, which provide for the reconversion of production and, above all, the empowerment of rural and indigenous women in the national level.

These plans will benefit more than 30,903 manufacturers to improve their competitiveness and market access, machine and equipment co-financing, business management and technology adoption. Likewise, more than 3,688 women farmers throughout the country will be empowered and will belong to various networks.

In addition, to reduce the cost of loans to farmers in the field, S/. 49 million for the Small Agricultural Producers Financial Inclusion Fund (FIFPPA), which will facilitate the delivery of S$400 million worth of loans with an interest rate of 4%. Delivery of 59,000 credits will be accelerated for more than 43,000 producers of beef, corn, avocado, cocoa, potatoes, rice, citrus fruits, olives, mangoes, beef milk, grapes, guinea pigs, pineapples, cassava, chili, oregano, sugarcane, quinoa and cotton.

Likewise, MIDAGRI will have SGD 2.5 million to issue mandatory environmental opinions to expedite the environmental certification of public and private investment projects, better technology to streamline processes, and more opportunities to reduce waiting times.

INCREASING MARKETS

In terms of strengthening safety and quality standards to improve the competitiveness of agriculture, an investment of SGD 21.4 million has been made to help improve the control of avian influenza as well as streamline agrifood safety processes. inputs. These measures will contribute to the production of 1.7 million tons of chicken meat per year (contributing 2% to the country’s GDP), as well as the export of meat for S / 30 million salts in pork exports and the creation of more than 1 million jobs, jobs and livelihoods. existence. about 4 million Peruvians.

MIDAGRI, in its work to facilitate contact between producers and consumers, will promote 640 “From Chakra to Pot” mobile markets to benefit small-scale family farmers, who can get new business opportunities in an organized way, promote enterprises. , encourage associativity and access to better services. It is supposed to allocate 4 million Singapore dollars.

On the other hand/. 15.6 million for SERFOR for forest and wildlife management activities in the Amazon to fill the information gap for sustainable use and have a positive impact on international trade and support the competitiveness of the forest sector. 1,573 qualification documents for forest use are requested.

CASH SUPPORT

Considering the start of the heavy rainy season and its impact on agricultural activities, MIDAGRI is implementing the Agricultural Disaster Insurance (SAC) program, which, with funding of SGD 80 million, provides free insurance to the most vulnerable farmers in 24 departments in order to be able to compensate them caused by natural disasters such as drought, hail, heavy rains, landslides, fires, epidemics, floods and others.

In addition to the crisis due to the increase in fertilizers and drought, MIDAGRI launched a cash support to help the economy of small farmers, benefiting more than 700,000 farmers with S/850 million salts.