According to statements by Adolfo de Córdova, Minister of Agriculture, (1) will continue with the works of Chavimochic. The fourth stage-de Palo Redondo, require an investment of 300 million dollars. (At the exchange rate 1US $ = 2.85 ns, equivalent to 855 million soles.)
This will broaden the agricultural frontier of La Libertad in 40 thousand hectares. According to the mi-Minister, will serve to promote export crops such as grapes, avocado, asparagus-gos "in huge demand in the international market."
macroproject In the earlier stages of irrigation introduced, in the Viru Valley, a similar amount, or slightly higher-hectares for export crops. Most of these lands are in the hands of a dozen large companies. Following 'the natural order of things' in place since the early 1990, the ownership of new areas (which will mean an investment public resources $ 7500 per hectare pro-environment, as is apparent from the figures given by the Minister) will also be concentrated in a handful of properties of large investors.
Minister also stated that Congress so running in La Libertad 15 projects me by means of Executive Groups (aimed at "areas of extreme rural poverty) for a total of 3'783, 427 nuevos soles and that Congress has approved an allocation of 70 million soles in total for the imple-mentation of 322 projects through the NE across the country.
The contrasts are obvious: 855 million soles of public resources to a handful of investors, 70 million to tens of thousands of people in "rural areas of extreme poverty."
be objected that while the in-pouring money into the irrigation works will be recovered-pected, because the land will be sold and then, when in production, this-do collect taxes, the money spent on the poor will never be recovered.
This argument does not hold. First, because public resources are aimed at achieving fundamental well-being of the population (the common good), and not to promote income generation of large investors (for which these are means by which most the population lack even processes and services and public goods provided by the State). Second, because experience indicates that the State can not recover what you invest in irrigation, and there is always a subsidy, open or hidden.
Third, because to support "rural areas of extreme poverty" is not a cost but, if well conceived and executed, an investment that is both social and eco-nomic, cultural and environmentally profitable.
Fourth, because there is a question of numbers: the inhabitants of the areas of extreme rural poverty are much more nu-merous investors ben-efits that public investment in irri-tions (even if are included as 'beneficiaries' to the workers to be em-ployed by large agro-export).
But even convinced to gain new lands for agriculture is the best means to achieve rural development, should consider that there are other possible scenarios-able, for example, rather than 40 thousand hectares are spread over ten or twenty large firms, are distributed in 400 companies average 100 hectares each, or 800 of 50 hectares, or 1600 companies from 25 hectares It is likely that the type of society and economy to be built at the new irrigated area on the base of medium and small firms would be more equitable, more and more dense social fabric. It would be much more stimulating diversified economic activities, small manu-billing, services, trade-plus consumers of domestic products, more inclusive and more ential squarely meet the needs of safety / food sovereignty-tion, What no doubt!, would also be more appropriate for a decentralized state with democratic governments that the mo-neolatifundista model that promotes the go-vernment APRA (as they did before Fu-jimori and Toledo).
In short, a proposal that pro-moving medium and small ge-erary rural development inclusive, not exclusive in-key. (3)
1. Published in El Peruano on January 6, 2010
2. See The Land Magazine 107, May 2009, in http://www.cepes.org.pe
3. A major World Bank specialists in land and rural development, Hans P. Binswanger, says the like arguments based on research. See Hans P. Bins-wang-Mkhize, Camille Bourguignon and Rogier van den Brink (editors), Agricultural Land Re-distribution. The World Bank. Washington, DC 2009.
This will broaden the agricultural frontier of La Libertad in 40 thousand hectares. According to the mi-Minister, will serve to promote export crops such as grapes, avocado, asparagus-gos "in huge demand in the international market."
macroproject In the earlier stages of irrigation introduced, in the Viru Valley, a similar amount, or slightly higher-hectares for export crops. Most of these lands are in the hands of a dozen large companies. Following 'the natural order of things' in place since the early 1990, the ownership of new areas (which will mean an investment public resources $ 7500 per hectare pro-environment, as is apparent from the figures given by the Minister) will also be concentrated in a handful of properties of large investors.
Minister also stated that Congress so running in La Libertad 15 projects me by means of Executive Groups (aimed at "areas of extreme rural poverty) for a total of 3'783, 427 nuevos soles and that Congress has approved an allocation of 70 million soles in total for the imple-mentation of 322 projects through the NE across the country.
The contrasts are obvious: 855 million soles of public resources to a handful of investors, 70 million to tens of thousands of people in "rural areas of extreme poverty."
be objected that while the in-pouring money into the irrigation works will be recovered-pected, because the land will be sold and then, when in production, this-do collect taxes, the money spent on the poor will never be recovered.
This argument does not hold. First, because public resources are aimed at achieving fundamental well-being of the population (the common good), and not to promote income generation of large investors (for which these are means by which most the population lack even processes and services and public goods provided by the State). Second, because experience indicates that the State can not recover what you invest in irrigation, and there is always a subsidy, open or hidden.
Third, because to support "rural areas of extreme poverty" is not a cost but, if well conceived and executed, an investment that is both social and eco-nomic, cultural and environmentally profitable.
Fourth, because there is a question of numbers: the inhabitants of the areas of extreme rural poverty are much more nu-merous investors ben-efits that public investment in irri-tions (even if are included as 'beneficiaries' to the workers to be em-ployed by large agro-export).
But even convinced to gain new lands for agriculture is the best means to achieve rural development, should consider that there are other possible scenarios-able, for example, rather than 40 thousand hectares are spread over ten or twenty large firms, are distributed in 400 companies average 100 hectares each, or 800 of 50 hectares, or 1600 companies from 25 hectares It is likely that the type of society and economy to be built at the new irrigated area on the base of medium and small firms would be more equitable, more and more dense social fabric. It would be much more stimulating diversified economic activities, small manu-billing, services, trade-plus consumers of domestic products, more inclusive and more ential squarely meet the needs of safety / food sovereignty-tion, What no doubt!, would also be more appropriate for a decentralized state with democratic governments that the mo-neolatifundista model that promotes the go-vernment APRA (as they did before Fu-jimori and Toledo).
In short, a proposal that pro-moving medium and small ge-erary rural development inclusive, not exclusive in-key. (3)
1. Published in El Peruano on January 6, 2010
2. See The Land Magazine 107, May 2009, in http://www.cepes.org.pe
3. A major World Bank specialists in land and rural development, Hans P. Binswanger, says the like arguments based on research. See Hans P. Bins-wang-Mkhize, Camille Bourguignon and Rogier van den Brink (editors), Agricultural Land Re-distribution. The World Bank. Washington, DC 2009.
