Ecuador: Two months after the increase in the official price of cane, the mills failed to comply

The sugar industry fails to pay the official cost of a ton of cane to producers, as reported by the National Union of Cane Growers of Ecuador (UNCE) before the Ministry of Agriculture (MAG). This last portfolio has reported the fact to the Ministry of Government, so that the respective controls can be carried out. More than two months have passed since the MAG accepted the farmers' claim that the price had been frozen for about seven years and that, given the increase in the price of inputs, it was urgent to also determine a rise in the official price per ton of cane. Thus, by resolution, last June it was established that the ton would go from $31.70 to $35.05. On that date (June 26 of this year) the industrialists did not publicly express whether this increase would affect them. After the UNCE complaint, Diario EXPRESO contacted the president of the National Sugar Federation (Fenazul), Laura Zurita, to express the sugar mills' version, but apologized, indicating that she would be ...