It is urgent to establish corn cover prices in Sinaloa

Sinaloa, Mexico .- A large percentage of corn production in Sinaloa is not yet within the coverage scheme, so they would be severely affected with the impact on international prices caused by the report of planting program that must be provided by the Department of Agriculture of the United States.The agricultural producer of northern Sinaloa Gilberto Irazoqui Galaviz considered that the little more than 5 million tons of corn that were set for the autumn-winter cycle 2021-2022 must register in this scheme, otherwise, he said, they will receive very little payment for their harvest despite the expectation that is still had for the commercialization of this grain.” The concern is because today the prices are going well, with the bases and international price is hovering around 7 thousand pesos, where those who have already bought coverages, minimally already have guaranteed a price of 6 thousand 400 or 6 thousand 450 per ton that already guarantees to recover the investment costs of that year that were very high, but it is also worrying that there is a lot of surface or a lot of production that is not within the coverages and if when the USDA takes out that report, it may stick a good drop in corn and will have an impact on all those producers who are not yet within the scheme of the hedges. It’s going to be a hard blow for all of them,” he explained. Read more: Sinaloan women, promoting sustainable fishing and empowermentThe fact that production falls within this scheme, he added, depends on the collection wineries allowing this contract and producers pressing for this scheme to be defined as soon as possible, Irazoqui Galaviz added that the commercialization of the grain remains undefined in its entirety, because there are many wineries and producers who are apathetic to take out guarantee insurance, so he urged farmers to put pressure on the collectors to achieve the coverage program and achieve within the scheme of contract agriculture. In this sense, the local deputy Deisy Yudith Ayala Valenzuela stressed that, in large part, the Law of Collection of Grains and Seeds for the State of Sinaloa, presented as an initiative on January 26 of this year, aims to benefit producers, mainly in the issue of marketing. This initiative, he said, consists of 66 articles, whose content is of observance throughout the state in agricultural and commercial matters, and aims to establish the general bases of the process of transport, collection, marketing and distribution of grains and seeds. It also protects the subjects involved in this chain, he added, provides legal certainty and establishes rights and obligations to the participants, recognizes the legal personality of the producer, the carrier and the collector or buyer. Something that draws powerful attention in this initiative is the formation of an Advisory Council, which will have the power together with the Federal Consumer Prosecutor’s Office, to carry out verification and complete certification of scales, which will be periodic and mandatory at the beginning and end of the harvest, among other details that protect the fair marketing of grains. In relation to this bill presented in the Sinaloa Congress, producer Gilberto Irazoqui Galaviz agreed with the local deputy that legal bases must be established to guarantee the fair commercialization of agricultural production in the state. Read more: Producers in the region of Évora, Sinaloa, in crisis due to fall in the price of beansI said that at the moment when producers come to market the grain, it goes through a scale and a measurement process that generates a document that, to this day, has no legal validity, but if that law remains, any purchaser of grain may be punished legally and criminally for failure to comply with the conditions of collection.” Hopefully it will be done and carried out, because it is something that has always been said, but none of that lands, hopefully it lands and has a punishment someone who ‘frauds’ a producer, because doing so risks their heritage and their health, their physical and mental work to achieve a harvest that is what producers live from so that a vival receives and does not pay. I do not ask, like the Bronco, that his hands be wet, but I do ask for a just punishment to those who commit fraud against the producers.” Japama changes drainage network in the Municipal alley in Los Mochis, but forgets to finish the work

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