Honduran Farmers for
Comprehensive Change
TEGUCIGALPA - Farmer organizations of
Honduras will present before the National
Congress a Comprehensive Agricultural Change
Bill to wipe out backwardness in rural
areas, where 67 of every 100 people live in
extreme poverty.
Honduran agriculture is dying because of the
lack of sound, fair public policies and the
lack of a social and technological reform
leading to leave neglect behind and improve
the people quality of life, said Obdulio
Maldonado, from the National Federation of
Agricultural and Livestock Farmers.
During the presentation this week of the
campaign "Vamos al Grano" (Letâ�Ös Go to the
Point), 32 organizations grouped under the
Land Platform considered the derogation of
the Agricultural Modernization Law as an
important step to change the current
situation. This law was promoted by the
World Bank and the International Monetary
Fund in the 90s, allowing landowners to
appropriate large estates, even some
belonging to cooperatives.
As a result of these policies, nowadays only
one percent of producers concentrate the
third part of best land in the country while
375,000 small farmers have no land to farm.
"Honduras agriculture is going through one
of the most critical situations in the
country's history," said Edgardo Chevez,
general coordinator of the Christian
Comprehensive Development Body.
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