El Salvador Boosts Agriculture
San Salvador - The Salvadorian government
started a program on Thursday to revitalize
the former strength of agriculture, increase
production and legalize land possession.
"We want to turn the countryside into the
driving force of the country's productive
development," President Mauricio Funes said
in the ceremony to launch the plan, and
recalled that the sector had been forgotten
for years.
By vitue of the new policy, the authorities
will speed up handing over title deeds of
lands to farmers, until reaching 3,000 in
the first 100 days of the new government.
The Executive has granted 934 title deeds
since it assumed power on June 1, to
families that had been for over 20 years
awaiting legalization. Simultaneously to
that measure, production of essential grains
will be increased, by means of handing over
fertilizers and packages of improved corn,
bean, rice and sorghum seeds.
This measure will benefit 600,000 farmers
and will allow increasing national
production in 10 percent in the 2009-2010
period.
The government has also planned to renew the
coffee park in the five upcoming years and
will distribute 20 million plants among
producers.
They will also create an integral program to
develop cattle farms, promoting the use of
improved pasture and low cost feeding, said
Funes.
The government program also includes
providing the farmers with technical
assistance and agricultural supplies,
doubling the areas sown with fruits and
vegetables, and granting credits to
producers. |
