Peru: The Ministry of the Environment delivered 40,000 cachama fingerlings to Fernando Lores producers

Published 2024년 6월 1일

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The Minister of the Environment, Juan Carlos Castro, has distributed over 40,000 gamitana fingerlings to 40 fish farmers in the Fernando Lores district, Maynas, Loreto region, aiming to boost food security and sustainable fishing. This move is expected to generate over half a million soles in income for these communities. During the event, the Minister also introduced the first fish reproduction package developed by the Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (IIAP), and announced the delivery of technological equipment to the Regional Government of Loreto for forest monitoring and conservation, supported by a budget of around S/446,000. This initiative highlights the government's focus on economic reactivation and sustainable development in the Peruvian Amazon, in collaboration with regional governments and various sectoral authorities.

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The Minister of the Environment, Juan Carlos Castro, delivered more than 40,000 fingerlings of the gamitana species to 40 fish farmers from 11 rural communities in the Fernando Lores district, in the province of Maynas, Loreto region. This sectoral intervention contributes to the strengthening of food security and sustainable fish farming in that area of the country, since it will mean more than half a million soles in income for local economies, said the head of the Ministry of the Environment (Minam). He added that in this way they seek to increase the availability of fishing resources in the Peruvian Amazon and their sustainable conservation; as well as contribute to improving the quality of life of the population since it will have a source of food and will also be able to market it, which will translate into social and economic growth. The beneficiary communities are Santa Rosa de Shato, Puerto Inca, Rivera Alta, Constancia, Nuevo Triunfo, Santa Cruz, Pachacutec, Jerusalem, ...

Source: AgroPeru