Rice production continues to suffer and higher price increases are expected.

Landing in Piura rice it was reduced from 10,000 to 6,500 ha due to rising prices for fertilizers, which led to an increase in the cost of selling this product in the main family basket.

Nonetheless manufacturers indicate that the increase in the selling price does not compensate for landing costs.

“In the 2021 campaign, we had an average of 200 centners of paddy. Today, with this fertilizer, we get an average of 100 to 120 bags per hectare, which does not compensate for the production costs,” said Ángel Yovera, president of the La Bruja de Cura Mori (Piura) Canal Irrigators Commission.

Technical coordinator Peruvian Rice Growers Association (Appear)Edwin Edken, explained that input prices for rice production have risen

“Costs have gone up, especially fertilizerthe work force has increased, a few things have grown, and the truth is that we see with great concern the failure of the government of Pedro Castillo to solve this problem, ”he said on RPP.

A representative of rice producers clarified that the wholesale price of paddy rice, which has not yet gone through the final process of being sold to the public, exceeds its historical value.

” rice prices They had already climbed on the farm S/0.90 or S/1, which was in the jungle, and it had gone up to S/1.30. On the coast, it exceeds S/1.50 (kilogram),” he said.

Edken added that the upcoming campaign will be very challenging as costs have risen even more. In the jungle alone, rice production exceeds S$10 billion, while prices are higher on the coast.

Faced with a lack of government support fertilizer crisisEdken argues that the only thing left for manufacturers to do is to raise prices in order to have an adequate rate of return.

“In Selva, the husk rice is estimated to be as high as S/1.50, which will actually drive up the price of polished rice. The price of polished rice is already on the rise,” he said.

Currently, data from the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri) indicate that the price of rice in wholesale markets It is between S/2.56 and S/3.80.

A recent RPP report indicates that this wholesale price has increased from two soles to four soles for 50kg bags. Sellers now indicate that a bag of this product sells for an average of S/186.