Ranchers warn of  deteriorating industry, farms loss

PANAMA ranchers have warned that the conditions of the agricultural sector continue to deteriorate,  and farmers are in danger of losing their properties. while waiting for action from President Juan Carlos Varela  who they believe  is living up to his tortoise label in the closing months of his administration 

 In a letter t to the Varela, carrying bearing which bears the signature of Aquiles Acevedo, president of the National Association of Cattle Ranchers (Anagan), the breeders ask the president to grant them the opportunity to meet with him to evaluate the results of the measures adopted on August 16, to which are added the specific agreements of the meeting at the Hotel Cubitá de Chitré and those reached on January 10, 2019.

Acevedo told Varela that the sector has deteriorated, to such an extent that the milk receiving plants predict cuts in production, and that livestock prices, far from rising, continue to fall.

“The performance requirement has not been effective in stopping large imports of meat from Nicaragua and milk from Costa Rica,” they said insisted and they fear the current scenario threatens to lead to the loss of their properties.