The National Public Consultation on the Draft Law for the Promotion, Development and Protection of Livestock Activity will be extended to the entire country for the next three weekends, the president of the Permanent Commission of Internal Policy, Nicolás Maduro Guerra, announced this Friday, as quoted by the National Assembly in a press release.
Following the meeting held by the Joint Commission with the representatives of small, medium and large producers in the livestock sectorThe deputy indicated that producers from the states of Guárico, Apure, Monagas, Barinas, Táchira and Cojedes will be consulted this Saturday.
A law that provides legal security for farm workers
He explained that the parliamentarians from the committees on Internal Policy and on Economy, Finance and National Development will be deployed throughout the livestock municipalities of these states, to listen to the ranchers, farmers, smallholders, social movements, and all those who make up the sector.
The idea behind this consultation, he pointed out, is to achieve a law that provides legal security to farm workers, livestock farmers, as well as personal and family protection to all producers in the country.
Maduro Guerra emphasized that the activity will have the participation of the Federation of Livestock Farmers and Agricultural Producers of the Southwest, the National Federation of Livestock Farmers of Venezuela (Fedenaga) and the National Confederation of Farmers and Livestock Farmers of Venezuela, (Confagan).
As well as with the Ezequiel Zamora Peasant Union, the Venezuelan Association of Refrigeration and Industrial Slaughterhouses (Asofrigo), the Association of Goat Breeders of Venezuela (Asocabra), the South of the Lake Association, the Federation of Poultry Farmers, and the Ezequiel Zamora Livestock Front, among others.
He specified that livestock, agricultural and food production are points of convergence; and expressed that they will work to achieve more progress in the drafting of laws.
