The cassava farmers are hesitant to plant this year, fearing that they go bad as last year because yields were not as expected.
Sincelejo. This year the outlook for cassava farmers is uncertain and therefore hesitant to planting. This was reported Magola Viera, manager of the Cassava cassava growing company.
According Viera, low crop yields and high transport costs are the industry into an abyss, as many farmers lost their creditworthiness.
"When the winter began visionábamos poor performance, but expected it to be both. Some crops were lost almost 90 percent," he added.
In 2009, yields per hectare were between 20 and 25 tons. At the end of 2010 and early 2011 in some crops were harvested 8 tons per hectare.
said many farmers have been unable to meet its commitments to the Agrarian Bank and they had to refinance their loans .
Cassava has 31 farmers and 4 Cordoba sucreños registered. These normally planted 600 hectares between industrial cassava and sweet. The first is sold and the last Fritolay Plant Starch Sucre.
As for prices, Viera said that they had improved this month, because the industrial kilo they were paying 160 pesos and now they are paid 180 pesos. The dried cassava was sold at 400 pesos a kilo, now sell at 480 dollars and in some cases to $ 500.
"Prices have improved since the maize is scarce and costs have risen. This could be an option for the recovery of the sector, because the industry will buy more cassava than corn, because the latter is very expensive, "said Viera.
The cassava farmers expect the rains do not increase to grow normally and get the expected returns.
0 comments:
Post a Comment