Honduras Declares
Emergency For El Niño
TEGUCIGALPA - The Honduran government on
Friday declared a state of emergency for the
agriculture sector against possible impacts
of the climate phenomenon El Nino, and
ordered the adoption of measures to avoid a
possible lack of basic grains.
The Honduran Council of Ministers assigned
600,000 U.S. dollars to aid 7,000
agriculture producers in the country, in
order to get the harvest of 20,000 tons of
beans, to cover the demand of July and
August.
Honduran Agriculture and Livestock Minister,
Jacobo Regalado, said that they had set the
goal of producing 20,000 tons of beans in
2010.
Regalado added that the harvest should be
ready before the raining season, the last
days of May, and the beans will be
commercialized between June and July.
Meanwhile, Honduran Vice President Samuel
Reyes, also Agriculture sector coordinator,
said that the "El Nino climate phenomenon is
affecting some beans and other grains
harvests, and it will impact the supply. The
emergency declaration aims to avoid such a
problem."
The goal is guarantee market supply and
avoid runaway increase of basic grain
prices, Reyes added.
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