Overview
- Agrarian bases in Valle de Sechura and Medio y Bajo Piura have confirmed they will join a national agricultural strike later this month to press the government for action.
- Producers say rice is selling below the cost of production while fertilizer prices have risen by more than 50 percent, creating what they call an immediate threat to farm survival and local livelihoods.
- Farm leaders rejected the government’s offer to buy 23,000 tonnes of rice as insignificant, citing regional output figures that they say make the purchase negligible for Piura producers.
- Their formal list of demands calls for emergency credit through Agrobanco or Banco de la Nación, direct fertilizer subsidies, bans on rice imports from subsidizing countries, and restart or construction of domestic fertilizer plants.
- Organizers warn of blockades at strategic regional points and say the protest is backed by multiple agrarian organizations nationwide, a move that could disrupt local transport and escalate pressure on national agricultural policy.