El Salvador: Rice producers have not received payment from mills for 10 months

Rice farmers have been waiting for ten months for the industrial sector that buys their grain and processes it in their mills to pay them for the 2020 production, while they are concerned about the "desperate" situation that the entire sector is going through, according to Esteban Ardón, president of the Association of Irrigators of Zapotitán (Areza). “The problem has not been solved for us. The mills still don't pay us. In total they still add up to $ 725,000 and there is also no assurance that they will buy the rice from this crop from us. We are in limbo, worried about keeping that rice and in debt and without payments, ”said Ardón. For her part, Beatriz López Crespín, representative of the Asociación Agropecuaria Sector Cinco Zapotitán said that the problem is serious, since the delay that many producers have with financial entities has caused the bankruptcy of farmers who live from the cultivation of this grain. And despite the fact that they have insisted that the mills ...