Rice strike: Organizing committee still awaits response from the Ministry of Agriculture
Rice strike
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The national rice farmers' strike continues. The organizing committee is awaiting a response to the letter sent to the Ministry of Agriculture proposing the establishment of a negotiating table to lift the blockades that remain in place in some departments across the country.
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In the letter, the rice producers request the in-person participation of the Ministers of Agriculture and Commerce , as well as one of the deputy ministers of the Ministry of Finance.
"With the establishment and formal opening of this committee, we producers commit to progressively easing the closing hours of the road corridors currently underway during the strike, thus facilitating greater mobility for citizens, without abandoning our just struggle for the sustainability of rice in Colombia," the document states.
The strike leaders had already announced that the blockades would not be lifted until a meeting with the National Government was held to discuss and establish structural solutions to address the current crisis facing the sector.
"Rice producers cannot continue to wait while dialogue is conditioned on the complete lifting of the strike, as this negates the basic principle of consensus. The country needs urgent and real solutions, and rice, an essential food on the Colombian table, cannot continue to be abandoned," the letter states.
The rice farmers' call, which motivated this mobilization , focuses on the request for measures aimed at establishing fair prices for locally produced rice, as well as effective regulation of production and marketing.
National rice strike in Colombia
National Rice Growers Committee
Closures remain in effect in 11 departments across the country, including:
- Tolima: Saldaña road that connects Espinal and Neiva, Gualanday, Chicoral–Bogotá–Ibagué road intersection.
- Huila: Campoalegre, Tesalia, Neiva Bogotá Entrance (toll), Pablo new limits of Tolima and Huila.
- Córdoba: Doctrine Sector and the Garitas (Lórica), Tierra Alta.
- Goal: Llano Lindo and old road to the plain.
- Casanare: Aguazul.
- Arauca: Tame.
- Sucre: Mojana Sector.
- Cesar: The Jagua de Ibirico, San Alberto, Aguachica.
- Santander: Sabana de Torres on the Magdalena Medio trunk road.
- North of Santander: Pedregal.
- Valledupar: Hurtado route (connection between Valledupar and La Guajira).
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