The Ministry of Agriculture identified a second outbreak of the Devouring Locust, now in grasslands and corn fields of the Havillal canton, municipality of San Miguel.
On July 15, the Government reported that they had detected the presence of the Devouring Locust in the state of nymph, in the Costa Azul hamlet of the municipality of Tecoluca, department of San Vicente.
The government has confirmed the presence of the devouring locust in the state of nymph in the Costa Azul hamlet in the municipality of Tecoluca, department of San Vicente.
The International Regional Organization for Agricultural Health alerted the region's ministries of agriculture to outbreaks of the devastating Central American locust.
The Central American authorities were informed of the alert in a note issued by the Regional International Organization for Agricultural Health (OIRSA) during the first stage of rains that ended in September.
A guideline was issued prohibiting the planting of pineapple, banana, rice, grasses, oil palm and other monocultures in forest reserves, buffer zones, national parks, biological reserves, national wildlife refuges, wetlands and natural monuments.
Arguing that the unusual growth in sugar imports is harming local production, the Alvarado administration decided to raise the tariff on products entering Costa Rica from 45% to 79% for a three-year period.
The Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce (MEIC) concluded the investigation requested by the Agricultural Industrial League of Sugar Cane (LAICA) and 4 mills, on the safeguard measure against imports of solid state, granulated sugar, known as white sugar, used for domestic and industrial consumption, justifying a deterioration in the main economic indicators of the National Production Branch (RPN), details an official statement dated June 15.
In Guatemala, approximately 75% of agricultural enterprises have reported liquidity problems in the context of the crisis generated by covid-19.
A study conducted by the Chamber of Agriculture (Camagro) states that during May, agricultural companies recorded income losses, a situation that can be explained by the quarantine decreed and the social isolation measures.
The National Congress of Honduras approved a decree to allow local agricultural producers with credits in arrears in Banadesa to manage the readjustment for a further six months.
On January 23, 2020, deputies approved a draft decree to give producers who have debts with the National Agricultural Development Bank (Banadesa) an additional six-month extension for the readjustment of their obligations, reported the institution.
The government announced that it is planning to increase the area planted with avocado from 2,000 to 4,500 hectares, in order to meet the demand for the fruit on the local market.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) reported that the National Avocado Plan will serve as an instrument to guide the management of agricultural sector institutions towards strengthening the cultivation of this fruit.
For the 2018-2019 agricultural cycle, the cultivated area in the country was 925,101 hectares, 14% less than the 1.07 million reported for the 2017-2018 cycle.
Data from the National Agricultural Survey (ENA), prepared by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), show that in the last agricultural cycle about 149,000 hectares were not cultivated with corn.
In Costa Rica, legislative initiatives are being prepared to restructure the credit portfolios of small and medium agricultural producers affected by climate phenomena.
One of the initiatives includes the purchase of the credit portfolio to readjust the debts of producers affected by climatic phenomena and who are unable to pay. The credits that would be applied in this case would be those of $35,000 or less.
To the denouncements made in recent months by businessmen from Guatemala and Nicaragua, is added that of a Honduran union, which denounces the invasion of 3,400 manzanas of productive land.
From January to September 2019, sales of the agricultural sector abroad totaled $2,080 million, 7% less than in the same period in 2018, mainly because of the performance of banana, pineapple and coffee exports.
Figures from the Foreign Trade Promoter (Procomer) detail that between the first nine months of 2018 and the same period of 2019, exports registered a slight increase, going from $8,490 million to $8,629 million.
The Guatemalan exporters' guild calls on local companies in the agricultural sector to participate in the PMA Fresh Summit, to be held from October 17 to 19 in Anaheim, California.
Those interested in participating in the PMA Fresh Summit can request more information by calling 2422-3618 or emailing ruth.estrada@agexport.org.gt, informed the Guatemalan Exporters Association.
The government announced that in the next few days it plans to make outstanding payments of $14 million to producers of basic grains and Grade C milk, and also that some $25 million will be invested in sector programs.
In rice, $9.7 million will be disbursed to 143 producers, in grade C milk more than 2,000 producers will receive $1.2 million, in corn some 194 producers will receive $1.8 million, and in soft loans 2.6 million balboas will be paid to 136 producers of corn, beans, palm, fishing, watermelon, melon and rice, informed the Ministry of Agricultural Development.
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