Fertilizers: how many farmers will receive carbamide supplied by the state?

Last week, Agro Rural announced that the company LLC “Redi Oil Supply” was chosen as the supplier of the first fertilizer procurement process, and since then there have been several doubts, including about the number of farmers who will receive urea.

Initially, Agro Rural chief executive Mario Rivero told RPP that the fertilizer would be delivered to 120,000 farmers, primarily rice, potatoes and corn.

However, the head of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Land Reclamation (Midagri), Andrés Alencastre, said that the first batch of purchased fertilizers will be provided to only 48,000 small producers.

Recently, other representatives Midagri They indicated that, according to forecasts for December, only 32% of the total number of registered citizens will receive fertilizers.

César Satisteban, director of statistics at Midagri, told the Gestión newspaper that by December, 1.01 million registered residents are predicted, of which 328,839 people will be eligible for urea, that is, only this figure will meet the requirement of having 5 hectares of cultivation or less and do not use organic fertilizers.

For its part, Grade researcher Eduardo Zegarra warned that the process census Delivery of urea can take two to three years, so it is likely that fertilizer recipients have not yet been identified.

He added that if the Good Professional winning company commits any lies, it will be a reason for disqualification, but not for the entire process to be cancelled, so the Good Professional should be passed on to the next winner.