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Farm producers in Bolívar say they have gone two months without diesel, adding to transport bottlenecks from badly deteriorated roads. The state producers’ federation is also urging authorities to fix problems in the foot-and-mouth vaccination campaign to prevent supply disruptions. Together, fuel scarcity, weak logistics and animal-health failures are limiting agricultural activity in a key producing area and raising the risk of lower food availability.
This points to a practical constraint on recovery outside the oil sector: even where production capacity exists, diesel shortages, impassable roads and weak livestock health controls can stop output from reaching market. In Bolívar, that raises near-term risks to food supply reliability rather than expansion.
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Oil And Gas · Crónica Uno
Aug 6, 2026
Watch for any government response on diesel deliveries to Bolívar producers and whether the foot-and-mouth vaccination issues are corrected. Evidence of improved fuel access or campaign normalization would test whether supply risks begin to ease.