B.S.C.F.A. Chairman Explains Interim Agreement with B.S.I.

On the phone: Alfredo Ortega

According to Chairman Ortega, the interim agreement allows for the Briceño administration to amend existing laws to prevent the kinds of stalemate that threaten to frustrate the sugar industry.

On the phone: Alfredo Ortega, Chairman, Committee of Management, B.S.C.F.A.

“The one-year agreement that we signed with BSI is to give an opportunity to the government to make changes in the law, so that these types of issues and situations that we have been facing really come to an end because we have seen that if there are not changes in the law, we will always be in this same situation with BSI.  So we got into an accord that we will be signing this year to give that opportunity that the government will [put together] a commission of inquiry and then from there whatsoever comes out will be part of the leading information to be placed as law in the act. I would like to thank everyone, the media, the cane farmers, the branch chairmen, all the team of the Minister of Agriculture and his team.  Really we’re thankful for them for giving us this helping hand.”