Martin Torrijos Meets with Food Producers

The presidential candidate, Martin Torrijos, met with representatives of Panama’s producers of legumes, vegetables, coffee and bananas, where he told them that his election promises include the transformation of the agricultural sector to guarantee them food security and financial support. The meeting, held in the district of Paso Ancho in the highlands of Tierras Altas, formerly known as Volcan, lasted one hour but allowed producers to raise their concerns and problems that affect the productive sector, such as improvements and construction of production roads, marketing, access to technology, financing and modernization of the agricultural sector, to give them access to more support from the institutions responsible for serving those who work to produce food in Panama.  “With producers it is always a pleasant opportunity; we have many challenges to overcome, an association that recovers time and takes us along a path of well-being and progress, and we want to make sure that producers are paid fairly and consumers have affordable products,” said the former president to local media.  Torrijos Espino added that there is a lack of institutional support from the groups involved in agriculture, in addition to an enormous debt with the producers, who have been promised to be paid, but the money has not arrived yet.