HUAMANGA (Ayacucho region, Peru), June 25 (NNN-ANDINA) — Pres Dina Boluarte affirmed that the Government has the challenge of lifting small farmers out of poverty and vindicating this activity as a generator of more than four million jobs in the South American country.
“The Government has the challenge of lifting small rural producers out of poverty and vindicating agriculture, which generates more than four million jobs, namely in rural areas of the central, southern Andes and in Amazonian regions,” she said.
She said that farmers do not need more speeches or words, but rather actions supported by concrete measures to boost their progress.
“Our farmers do not need more speeches, more demagogy, or promises that are not kept; our farmers need concrete measures to leave poverty behind, access markets, and move forward. Deeds not words,“ she said during a meeting with Ayacucho region farmers —within the framework of Farmer’s Day celebrated every June 24.
The Head of State indicated that this date allows us to pay tribute and recognize the work of men and women in the countryside.
“To those women and men from the countryside who —since immemorial ages, many times in the midst of rain, cold, sun, wind, and hailstorm— are there producing food for each one of us. That is why it is so important to know how to recognize humbly, to be grateful for that effort and that commitment, which men and women who till the land put into it,” she highlighted.
The top official added that farmers currently require credits, seeds for cultivation, machinery, technology, title deeds, and proper water resources management, as well as basic services linked to education and health, plus access to markets for their products.
“Our commitment is to make progress on closing gaps in (access to) health, education, drinking water (services), infrastructure, highways, among others. That is why today I commit myself to you, brothers from Ayacucho,” she expressed.
Moreover, Boluarte announced that the users’ board law will soon be enacted, “awaited by all farming workers nationwide,“ in addition to the Puquio Hospital project execution in this Andean region.
Today’s event was also attended by Cabinet Chief Alberto Otarola, as well as by Ministers Nelly Paredes (Agrarian Development and Irrigation), Hania Perez de Cuellar (Housing, Construction and Sanitation), Paola Lazarte (Transportation and Communications), plus Julio Demartini (Social Inclusion and Development). — NNN-ANDINA
