By: Richard Moreno Bustos
Small-scale agriculture is the economic group Ancash department that has received little attention from the state in a large section of our regional economic history, is implementing or developing public policies that promote major investments. Here, the activities Agriculture accounts for only 7% of Gross Domestic Product Division (PBI), but it is dedicated 49% of the employed (employed EAP), namely that productivity in this economic sector is quite low and yet supports nearly half of those with some employment in the region.
to the aforementioned characteristics, adding that 91% of the production of small-scale agriculture is the main destination Ancash consumption, while the eyes of the state has skewed view projects and initiatives focus on, not less important agricultural export (PE Case Chinecas).
is why the absence of national policies, regional and even local to meet the food-producing sector, is reflected from the various levels of government in the start-up budget (PIA 2010) whose schedule for smallholder agriculture Ancash reaches 14%, even more, if we see the budget allocation for investment from the Regional Government of Ancash earlier this year to just less than 1% of its overall budget.
These behaviors are seen in a scenario where the level of "chronic malnutrition" is 23.5% in 2009 and that goal by 2014 institutions Roundtable for Poverty Reduction in seeking to reduce it to less than 15%. It is also good to note that the public has a special situation for several years seen significant revenue derived from income that captures the state, mostly because of the extraordinary profits made by companies such as Antamina Mining and Barrick, and ; to become a real opportunity to fund the solution of problems of food, employment and poverty represented by the small-scale agriculture. But these activities still own traditional territory, appears to be "historically cursed" with the abandonment of public and private intervention, especially in a context where a global food crisis is becoming more evident. It seems that only "Gaston Acurio" chain welcomed efforts to give greater value to our small farm production.
When testing an estimate of the funds available for investment in different institutions of the department in 2010, close at S /. These resources 3.700 million, of which a portion could be aimed at strengthening the regional productive system, but in a logic "serious" to "regional policy" for rural sector development.
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