Head of State: Venezuela proposes to transform conventional production through agroecology

Published at: 03/02/2025 07:30 PM

This Monday, February 3rd, the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, stressed that Venezuela proposes to transform conventional production through agroecology.

In this regard, he said that “there is a debate between organic and traditional agro-organic production that encourages the use of pesticides, in addition to highly processed additives and the negative impact on the soil.”

During the broadcast of his program Maduro Live de Repente, in which he mentioned that agrochemicals “kill the earth, which is a sin, you kill the human being”.

He explained that these agrochemicals cause diseases in people who consume these products and crops, “all those diseases that have appeared that are not cured, diabetes and hypertension, cancer of all kinds, Alzheimer's and advanced dementia, all these diseases caused by the poison with which food is grown.”

Mazo News Team