The Sembrando Vida program must have a favorable impact on the environment to help counteract the drought, so the call to the federal government is to heed the recommendation of the Conselva organization to plant trees in the basins to encourage rain, declared Vladimir Maro Cazares.
The president of the Peasant Committee in the municipality of Choix, commented that it is good money that the people who benefit from the federal program receive, but it is necessary to monitor that they are actually reforesting and not just keeping the resource without fulfilling the objective of improving the ecosystem.
“In fact, the municipality in the previous six-year term already obtained it, so what is missing here is to focus the program more on where it has real returns, that it has a strong impact, that it is not just a billboard program because the producer does have good income, through the program it is six thousand pesos a month, but there is no environmental progress,” he said.
He said that Sembrando Vida was launched by the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and what is expected is that with the president of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum it will be continued in a better way, with professionalism by planting the trees where they are needed and avoiding the indiscriminate felling of vegetation.
He mentioned that Sinaloa is facing a severe drought and the most affected are those who live in the mountainous region because they depend on the rains for agriculture and livestock and two consecutive years have passed with no rainfall and it is clear to them that they have to heed the recommendations of environmental organizations.
He recalled that, due to the drought, Sinaloa registers a 55 percent drop in the economic value of crop production, going from 37 billion pesos to 17 billion in the 2023-2024 agricultural cycle, derived from restrictions on planting due to water shortages.
Source: lineadirectaportal
