Hoybolivia.com reports from La Opinion: There will be $362.2 million dollars to double food production To overcome the shortfall in food production that has Cochabamba, the Government announced yesterday that it will invest approximately $362.2 million dollars between 2015 and 2020. “We’re going to double food production by about 5 million tons per year,” said the…
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Wheat production reached 1.8 million tons
Pagina Siete reports: ACCORDING TO A REPORT OF 11 YEARS MADE BY IBCE Wheat production reached 1.8 million tons Between 2002 and 2013, the country imported 1.6 million tons, but besides the grain, wheat flour must be bought from foreign markets. Wheat production increases, but the country still has to import both the grain and…
Bolivia: from food producer to importer!
Wilfredo Ramirez writes in El Diario: From producer to importer of food As it continues, without honest and responsible forecasting the multinational Government wasteful policy, without observing behavior of austerity in the management of the moneys of the Bolivian people (expenses and investments), national majorities will continue suffering from the scourge of hunger, misery and…
Do Bolivians eat properly?
Monica Briancon writes in La Prensa: POPOLO GRASSO, POPOLO MAGRO [FAT PEOPLE, SKINNY PEOPLE] Some time ago, in a social venue, I was departing with friends, chit chat. One of them, openly, entrusted to the group that in Bolivia being skinny is a luxury. All the others nodded and agreed with the statement. Those who were…
Lack of and/or absence of sound Bolivian public policies result in a catastrophe!
Luis Antezana writes in El Diario: The catastrophic collapse of agricultural production The dramatic announcement that the import of rice increased fifteen times! last year, it has been the coup de grace for the non-traditional and traditional agriculture of our country. In addition, nobody thought that such an outcome would be the work of the…
Can Bolivia oppose to biotechnology?
Gary Rodriguez writes in El Deber: Biotechnology: can we oppose to it? According to the FAO more than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day. If this happens with seven billion inhabitants, how would we feed more than nine billion mouths by 2050? Something difficult to achieve with the climate change, the scarcity…
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