Venezuela, despite the sanctions, achieved 97% of its food supply with domestic production
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Published at: 16/01/2024 08:54 PM
Venezuela , despite the sanctions imposed by the North American empire, during 2023, managed to reach 97% of the food supply with domestic production, with the support of the Great Sovereign Supply Mission and the economic policies of the Bolivarian Government.
This was stated by the Minister of Popular Power for Productive Agriculture and Lands, Wilmar Castro Soteldo, in the 360° program broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión, where he said that “it is practically full supply, of this 97%, about 94 or 95% is domestic production”.
He explained that to face the damage of the imperial attacks that intensified in 2015, major changes were made in terms of macroeconomics and economic policy, to achieve the growth of the agri-food sector starting in 2018.
He pointed out that the remaining percentage of food corresponds to items that the country does not produce, such as wheat, soybeans, oats, barley, “which our people consume, but they are products that, due to the country's climatic conditions, are not produced in Venezuela.”
Castro Soteldo considered the figures of achievements achieved by Venezuela and which were reported by the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro in his annual message, as they are evidence of the fight against the impact of illegal US coercive measures, which reflect the coherence of the presidential speech and the work carried out over the years, to protect Venezuelan families.
In this regard, he presented the paper on the progress made in containing and reducing the nutritional deficit between the years 2017-2023 and highlighted that in 2017, the deficit figure among the vulnerable population was 35.6% as a result of the economic war, and progressively, the Bolivarian Government began to reduce this index to 6.5%.
“That is why wars and unilateral coercive measures are genocidal measures that produce famines, but it is interesting to contrast how the Bolivarian Revolution progressively lowered these levels of nutritional deficiency, until it reached the average ceiling that FAO establishes for the countries of the world,” he said.
“This figure is higher than the countries on the continent that do not have sanctions, and that say they are more developed than us and have more resources than Venezuela,” he said.
The minister screened a video-documentary about his virtual participation in the summit of ministers of agriculture, which took place this Tuesday in the capital of Chile, Santiago.
During the Venezuelan intervention at that event, the remark was made that the issue of food security should not consider food as a commodity, but as a necessity, or as a product that the human being has and produces it.
“The Bolivarian Revolution, for years with the commander and President Maduro, has been talking about the need to build sovereign agriculture, an agriculture that we do not depend on anything or anyone, only on our people, only on our producers, our peasants and peasants,” he argued.
Mazo News Team