Urban basic food staples (CBA) climbed to $261.48 last July and have accumulated a $10.66 increase over the first seven months, according to the National Statistics and Census Office (Onec). Onec reports that urban basic food staples increased by $1.53 compared with...
Civil Protection Director General Luis Alonso Amaya warned Tuesday that the agricultural sector’s main concern amid the scarcity of rainfall lies in the viability of the year’s second harvest, known in the countryside as the postrera or tunalmil harvest....
On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, commemorated this past August 30, family and human rights collectives demanded that the Salvadoran state take action to determine the whereabouts of missing persons and ensure their relatives receive...
Lawmakers on the Political Commission on Monday interviewed the first 6 of 42 candidates for the National Council of the Judicature (CNJ), an institution tasked with training, evaluating, and nominating judges and magistrates for the Salvadoran judicial system. The...
The Central Reserve Bank (BCR) corrected the figures for agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing activity and eliminated some of the declines it had reported in the first months of the year. In its June publication of the Economic Activity Volume Index (IVAE),...
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) Óscar Domínguez said that 20,000 manzanas of corn and 5,000 manzanas of beans will be brought under irrigation systems during the postrera cycle, amid the emergency caused by the El Niño climate phenomenon. In an...
