Corn Price Increase

Farmers project in February and March next year will be no shortage of corn because the planting of the summer season is delayed by two months, said yesterday the president of the Corn and Sorghum Producers of Santa Cruz (Promissory) Vicente Gutierrez.

He said the delay will impact the prices of chicken and pork, whose production requires corn as feed inputs for livestock. Gutierrez explained that due to weather problems, planting corn and other grains during the summer cropping season, which should begin in mid-September, would not start and will be delayed until early November.

The summer crop will be delayed, therefore, until mid-April next year.
“The biggest hit by the shortage and high price of the product, between February and March next year, the producers of chicken, pork and even beef, which are beginning to use corn as the main raw material for fattening food” he said.

The general counsel of the Association of Poultry Farmers of Cochabamba (ADA), Fernando Quinoa, ratified the president’s warning Promissory and said the only way to address an impending crisis in the poultry industry is to develop a contingency plan between the Government, grain producers and producers of poultry meat to ensure the planting of 160 000 hectares during the campaign indicated that ensuring verano.MedidaQuiroga planting corn in sufficient quantity implies that the Government should provide technical assistance and credit to particular small and medium producers of maize and sorghum in eastern Bolivia for the purchase of seed, fertilizer, fertilizer and tools. Farmers also demand that the government lift the ban on rice exports.

Gutierrez recalled that last year due to steep government suspension of exports, a large percentage of farmers felt discouraged and only 93 of 140 planted hectares with a yield of 2.93 tons per hectare.

5 000 tones imported Due to serious transport difficulties, the farming community of Cochabamba succeeded in importing the Brazilian market, so far, only 3 000 tons of yellow corn from a set quota of 40 000 tones until the end of the year, said yesterday the president of the Departmental Association Poultry (ADA), Willy Scoria.

“Nationally we have imported so far 5 thousand tons of that total approximately 3 000 came to Cochabamba to meet regularize the restocking of farms with chicks BB and relieve to some extent the lack of balanced feed for poultry farming,” said.
Scoria reiterated that despite a ton of imported corn in Cochabamba set can cost between 275 and 280 dollars will continue to import the product due to its local market price is above $ 290 the same extent.

He noted that the last two months the production of chicken meat decreased markedly, to the extent that many poultry farmers, lacking availability of maize, are restricting the purchase and stocking their farms with chicks BB.

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