The Minister of Agriculture again reproaches the "disloyalty" of having published abroad reports of a water crisis in Petorca: "Dirty laundry is washed at home"

The Minister of Agriculture, Antonio Walker, has again questioned the campaign highlighting the conflict around water in the province of Petorca, in the region of Valparaíso. The Secretary of State badured that this could have undesirable effects on the major imported avocado markets.

In the past year, several international media have echoed the serious situation currently being experienced by local residents: They point out that avocado producers end up with the little water left over in the region and that there are even supermarkets where it is planned to stop buying lawyers of this origin.

German television, the Danish press and the British newspaper The Guardian echoed Petorca's concerns by questioning leaders of the Movement for the Defense of Access to Water, Land and Water. protection of the environment (Modatima).

In this scenario, Minister Walker badured that "going to campaign outside Chile – our own compatriots – is a lack of loyalty to the country. Dirty clothes are washed at home, problems that we have to solve them here. "

The Secretary of State stated that" agriculture offers us the opportunity to end rural poverty and not pay for sinners because we have 350 000 hectares of fruit trees and we have conquered 140 countries for our sustainable practice.We are therefore going abroad for specific issues in order to discredit Chilean agriculture, it is serious. 19659003] Be that as it may, Walker questioned the fact that production was developing at the expense of the community's water: "This is not the way to do the business. We therefore condemn this situation, but many people also does harmonious agricultural production, in respect of the environment and men.

Finally, he insisted that " we can not allow to discredit the country and a way of doing agriculture that has succeeded in the world". a few months ago, the minister had formulated the same criticisms: " We must be very disloyal towards the country so that it sort of Chile and spreads that sustainable agriculture is not practiced here . Not for a mole, a very particular problem in a very small province, we are going to question the seriousness of Chilean agriculture, "he said.