“We are making available five to seven million hectares [of land] that our country has to develop to reach 30 million cultivable hectares,” the minister said. He added that Venezuela is offering the farmlands to foreign producers to grow crops in the South American country. Full Text -> PressTV

Traducción de cortesía -> “Estamos poniendo a disposición de cinco a siete millones de hectáreas [de tierra] que nuestro país tiene que desarrollar para llegar a 30 millones de hectáreas cultivables”, dijo el ministro. Agregó que Venezuela está ofreciendo las tierras de cultivo a productores extranjeros para cultivar en el país sudamericano.

Nicolás Maduro aseguró este miércoles 10 de agosto que el país se transformará en una “potencia productora y exportadora de alimentos”. De igual manera, aseguró que Venezuela dejará de depender del petróleo, lo que busca lograr a través de un esquema que ha “ofertado a, por lo menos, una decena” de naciones e inversionistas. Por Astolfo Villarroel. Texto Completo -> PuntodeCorte

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Venezuelan cacao is highly appreciated globally, but the exports remain scarce due to land insecurity, administrative barriers and now genetic competition. By Kaoru Yonekura. Full Text -> CaracasChronicle

Traducción de cortesía -> El cacao venezolano es muy apreciado a nivel mundial, pero las exportaciones siguen siendo escasas debido a la inseguridad de la tierra, las barreras administrativas y ahora la competencia genética.

Speaking to Tasnim, the Iranian deputy interior minister for economic affairs highlighted the added value that the products and services provided by domestic knowledge-based companies would create in other countries, as in South American nations. According to Mohsen Kousheshtabar, Venezuela has provided Iran with one million hectares of farmland for cultivation while the world is grappling with the shortage of strategic reserves. Full Text -> TasnimNews

Traducción de cortesía ->Hablando con Tasnim, el viceministro del interior iraní para asuntos económicos destacó el valor agregado que los productos y servicios proporcionados por empresas nacionales basadas en el conocimiento crearían en otros países, como en las naciones sudamericanas. Según Mohsen Kousheshtabar, Venezuela ha proporcionado a Irán un millón de hectáreas de tierras de cultivo para el cultivo mientras el mundo lidia con la escasez de reservas estratégicas.

Venezuelan Jacobo Arturo Castillo, a higher university technician in agriculture with 35 years of experience, believes TT has a great opportunity to deal with the economic challenges left by covid19 by making the most of its land. Castillo took refuge in TT since 2018, and has been working in agriculture here. He believes TT has type A soil, which has all the ingredients to generate good harvests. By Grevic Alvarado. Full Text -> NewsDay

Venezuelan farmer Agustin Zenere should have been planting corn by the second week of May – a crucial task in the economically devastated South American country where 7 million people are food insecure. Instead, his 30-hectare (74-acre) plot of land in the breadbasket town of Turen was still covered with the brown, shriveled leaves of a sesame crop he could not harvest in time because the government had not given him enough diesel to run his tractors. By Luc Cohen and Keren Torres. Full Text -> ReginaLiderPost

The Agricultural and Livestock Union of the Andes of Venezuela (Unagandes), one of the most active of its kind in the country, on Monday warned of a food shortage as a result of the lack of fuel, which, it said, is preventing over 90% of producers from plowing the fields. Full Text -> TheRioTimes

“We have gone back about two centuries,” groaned farmer Alfonso Morales who, for a lack of diesel in oil-rich Venezuela, must now rely on oxen to plow his land. “Plowing a hectare with oxen takes three or four days. With a tractor it is only about five hours,” Morales, 28, told AFP by telephone from Merida in the Andes mountains, where he is finding it increasingly difficult to eke out a living. Full Text -> BorneoBulletin

Cuba and Venezuela agreed on Tuesday to promote food sovereignty by expanding bilateral cooperation to the field of agri-food, which the governments of the countries say is one of the areas most affected by sanctions imposed by the United States. The agreements were signed within the framework of the XXI Cuba-Venezuela Intergovernmental Commission held in Havana, headed by the Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and Cuban Vice Prime Minister Ricardo Cabrisas. Full Text -> LaPrensaLatina

Venezuela is now on the verge of famine, the International Crisis Group warns. More than half of the land used to grow vegetables last year won’t be replanted, according to farming federation Fedeagro. Corn production is expected to cover less than a quarter of national demand. And the tightening vice of U.S. sanctions threatens to strangle what little food and oil is getting in from abroad. By Fabiola Zerpa, James Attwood and Nicolle Yapur. Full Text-> Bloomberg News