Ignacia Fernández, Minister of Agriculture of Chile: “the Agricultural Field Is Being an Unattractive Job for the National Population”

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María Ignacia Fernández (Santiago, 52) assumed as Minister of Agriculture in August, after the abrupt removal of Esteban Valenzuela, who was taken out by political discrepancies between his party, the Regionalist Federation Green Social, and the Government of Gabriel Boric. Sociologist, a militant of the Socialist Party (PS) and with long experience in rural development, Fernández knows the portfolio well: he was undersecretary of Agriculture be…

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The Minister of Agriculture, Ignacia Fernández, led in Padre Las Casas the delivery of irrigation bonds for a total of $3.5 billion, an initiative that will benefit more than 130 peasant and indigenous families in La Araucania. The ceremony, developed with the regional presidential delegate, Eduardo Abdala; the executive director of the National Irrigation Commission (CNR), Wilson Ureta; the national director of CONADI, Álvaro Morales; and the a…