Midagri: Procurement process for 44,000 tons of urea to be completed next week

Minister of Agricultural Development and Irrigation, Jenny Ocamponoted today, Saturday, that next week the process of purchasing 44,000 tons of urea will be the culmination after the supplier company has met the latest requirements direkagro.

Owner midagri indicated that this is due to the fact that next week the company that received the tender will perform a presentation letter of guarantee and verification of the bank deposit in the national financial system, after which the service order will be signed.

“Waiting for the company (direkagro) complies with the latest requirements and the deposit certificate can be made effective. Thus, the service order will be signed and thus complete the process of purchasing urea to serve small producers and provide an agricultural campaign,” he said. ocampo.

future strategy

In addition, the minister assured that her sector is working on a “comprehensive strategy” to prevent future problems in providing fertilizer farmers of the country. This, he said, is to take the necessary measures to ensure the food security of the population.

In addition, he calculated that after the completion of the process of purchasing nitrogen fertilizers, a batch of carbamide will arrive at the ports in December by the supplier company.

Regarding the registration of agricultural producers who will benefit from urea, ocampo noted that the registration process for farmers in Register of Agricultural Producers (RPS) ‘Moving fast’ He stressed that there are already more than 990,000 registered manufacturers in the country and the number is expected to reach one million in the coming days.

midagri pointed out that PPP aims to “benefit more than 2 million 200 thousand people engaged in agricultural production”, of which 97% are family farmers.

” PPP provide beneficiaries with various services (…) bonuses (Fertiabono), loans, carbamide supply, training, access to digital markets, certified seeds, vaccination kits, as well as information about its products, including,” the ministry said in a statement.

In addition, through said registry, it will seek to “have a real and geographically linked list of field growers, which will enable the national agrarian problem to be tackled with greater awareness, to outline policies and offer solutions to their various needs.”

additional term

Remember November 7th ocampo noted that the Paraguayan company was granted an additional period direkagro to present a letter of guarantee, which will allow you to close the purchase process.

“The urea purchase process is still in place and the inconvenience we have experienced is that the company (Direcagro) has asked us for an additional period of time to provide a letter of guarantee, and thus, after fulfilling this last requirement, the contract can be signed. ”, said the Minister during the event at the mobile markets “De la Chacra a la Olla” in Chorrillos.

The Midagri owner then repeated that this fourth purchase process fertilizer This was done transparently and in accordance with legal regulations.

“We only hope that the company (the supplier of urea) will fulfill this requirement (a letter of guarantee), close the purchase of urea and wait for the raw material to enter the country,” he said.