75th Legislature will protect the Michoacan countryside in the 2024 budget – MonitorExpresso.com

United Commissions meet with the head of SADER
Morelia, Michoacán. – Confronting climate change, reducing costs and improving the quality of production, are some of the issues discussed by the deputies who are members of the United Commissions on Programming, Budget and Public Accounts and on Finance and Public Debt, when they met with the head of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER), Cuauhtémoc Ramírez Romero. according to a statement from the State Congress.
Deputies Marco Polo Aguirre, president of the Programming, Budget and Public Accounts Committee, Hugo Anaya Ávila, member of the same; as well as Seyra Alemán Sierra, Eréndira Isauro and Felipe de Jesús Contreras, president and members, respectively, of the Finance and Public Debt Commission, expressed their interest in budgeting the necessary resources to face the challenges in the area.
In this context, the head of SADER presented to the deputies of the 75th Legislature, the Budget proposal for the Fiscal Year 2024, which amounts to 652 million 773 thousand pesos, which will be distributed as follows: current expenditure, more than 344 million and for investment just over 272 million.
For his part, Deputy Marco Polo expressed his interest in seeking a budget that covers the needs that the countryside requires and even fought for a possible increase to the budget proposal presented, a resource that could be used, according to the Secretary of Agriculture, to cover canals, irrigation and water treatment.
Deputy Felipe de Jesús Contreras stressed that having healthy farm products has an impact on the reduction of diseases that are often caused by chemicals used in agriculture, for the benefit of the health and economy of Michoacans.
Likewise, Deputy Erendira Isauro, said that the proposal will be analyzed seeking to protect the production of native corn, so that it is not outdated by transgenic corn, in addition to continuing to promote organic fertilizer, to achieve higher quality productions.
At the time, legislator Hugo Anaya Ávila questioned about the twelve percent reduction presented this year in the budget for the item, to which the secretary responded that this decrease corresponds, among other issues, to the reduction in the purchase of chemical fertilizers and greater production of organic fertilizer.

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