Minister for the Communes: Zamoran funds will strengthen the country's agri-food production

Published at: 17/09/2024 10:47 PM

Peasants from 10 states of the country held the First National Meeting of Zamoran Funds, held at the Carlos Lanz Agrourban Training Center, located in the San Juan parish, Bolivarian Libertador municipality in Caracas, with the objective of strengthening agricultural production in the country.

This meeting was attended by the Minister of Popular Power for Communes, Social Movements and Urban Agriculture, Ángel Prado, who stated that he is with peasant and peasant sisters and brothers, who, during the administration of Commander Hugo Chávez, fought for the lands and conquered means of production that for many years have produced food.

He also highlighted, together with Luis Leonardo Castillo, Deputy Minister of Urban and Family Agriculture, that “today in this call made by President Nicolás Maduro to our people, to organize ourselves in communes, in communal circuits, because there is a need to work with food production. The food that is produced in our fertile soil in Venezuela and that must arrive transformed in large cities to make the distribution fair, with the food committees of each circuit.”

He said that spokespersons for the Zamoran Funds, from different regions of the country, bring ideas and proposals to relaunch the policy of the Zamoran Funds, as a collective space for production based on agroecology, with new techniques and technologies that allow efficiency and effectiveness in planting, in agricultural and livestock production.

“Here together with their public servants who are willing to voluntarily contribute to planning, studying, training, learning and sharing rural and city experiences, in productive spaces across the country.”

Minister Prado stressed that a group of students who will soon take courses with the Landless Movement of Brazil, in Brazil, are also participating in the Meeting. “It is a movement that has extensive experience in production, that shapes its youth, that has developed agroecological techniques and that has a successful policy in the area of food production and export.”

For her part, Rosario Ríos, main spokesperson for the National Network of Producers and Producers Los Fundos Zamoranos, added that they started the Meeting on the right foot, alongside the community minister. “We are the Zamoran guardians because we are taking care of the land that we rescued with our Commander Chávez.”

Ríos specified that they should submit proposals to Minister Ángel Prado to advance food production from these socio-productive spaces.

“We want to become a Zamoran training school, we have training plans for young people; we have already been doing it; we believe that now it will be very successful together with Minister Prado and the workers' president Nicolás Maduro Moros.

On the other hand, Eli Silva, a young man from the El Maizal Socialist Commune, stressed that in the coming days they will travel to Brazil for training. “Youth have a great task entrusted to them by President Maduro. We have that great commitment to working for our communities, for our territory and to relaunch the project that our commander Chávez left us.”

He explained that they will also bring the experience of Venezuelan work, of organization, of how the youth here are preparing, are organizing themselves in all spheres and all sectors to be part of the collective construction of the great horizon left by Commander Hugo Chávez.

Mazo News Team