The fertilizer crisis and the sowing of controversy: the times when the government announced the arrival of urea, but it did not arrive

Because the President Pedro Castillo announced last October that he would be promoting Second agrarian reform along with the purchase of fertilizers, this process has undergone several adjustments and other controversies. The truth is that today After 11 months, the promised urea has not arrived in the countryeven though the 2022-2023 Great Agricultural Campaign has already begun. Even the performer changed the date of arrival of fertilizer bags 6 times.

Here we are considering three bidding processes to buy fertilizers and the time the executive branch announced the dates in which tons of urea would flow and not be respected.

First call

At the beginning of June Agro Rural invalidated the first process of purchasing fertilizers on not “meet the technical specifications requested from companies bidders for the user area”. In the same time The controller warned about the risks because this process did not provide adequate measures to guarantee the timely supply of this key resource for agriculture.

On June 11, Andres Alencastre, who led Midagri for 4 days, announced that By July 11, the first batch of carbamide will arrive in the country. Nonetheless, this promise was not kept.

Second call

June 13, after the second call, company Brazilian company MF Fertilizers wins Good Pro award buying fertilizer. It was found that the first batch of carbamide in the amount of 40 thousand tons enters the country within 35 days. In other words, fertilizer bags will be available in July. But it wasn’t.

Ten days later, on June 23, this second tender was canceled Due to warnings from the controller and MF Fertilizers, this was excluded from the process. On that day, the head of Midagri indicated that tons of this raw material would arrive on August 4th.

However, this proposal was diluted. July 6 Minister of Agrarian Development and Irrigation again guaranteed that receipt of the first batch of carbamide it should have been between 15 and 18 August, but it wasn’t.

Third call

In the middle third call, versions of the arrival were constantly changing. On July 16, Alencastre once again guaranteed that the arrival The first batch of urea will be in Peru between August and September.. Although he indicated to another local media that it would begin to be distributed from the second half of August.

For July 28, in his message to the nation, President Pedro Castillo adjusted the calendar and stated that fertilizers will be in warehouses in August ready for distribution. This was not the case either.

On August 2, it became known that the North American company LLC “Redi Oil Supply” Won a good pro buying fertilizer. In this regard, it was reported that the first batch would arrive by the end of September..

This week at the latest PCM conference, Alencastre announced that his sector had decided to disqualify Ready Oil Supply as a urea supplier. as a result of the controller’s comments.

It was decided to select the third company from the list of finalists. That is the Italian Unionsped SRL, even though it submitted a more expensive offer.