Talk:Agriculture in Venezuela

NPOV
There are dozens of articles discussing food shortages throughout Venezuela, yet not a single mention in this article. And, the sources used? Monthly Review and Venezuela Analysis. Wikipedia is not your forum for publishing propaganda. This article is replete with NPOV violations.JoelWhy (talk) 16:04, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The heaviest used source is The Journal of Economic History, followed by the Library of Congress; and Venezuelanalysis is a reliable source used in academia. Take your personal attacks elsewhere. As to the food issue: this article is about agriculture (food production) not food (food consumption). Removing POV tag on that basis, since your objection is founded in misunderstanding the article topic. Rd232 talk 21:57, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * No, my objection is not founded on a misunderstanding. The article specifically discusses how Venezuela is now self-sufficient regarding a host of products. The concept of food shortages go hand-in-hand with self-sufficiency. Four of the references are from Venezuela Analysis. Monthly Review is referenced. The Land Research Action Network is referenced. This is an absurd selection of references.JoelWhy (talk) 12:05, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * The article also covers, for example, the lack of self-sufficiency for beef, chicken, eggs and milk. Issues of why that self-sufficiency isn't adequately covered by imports are pretty well beyond the scope of this article about agriculture. As for the references - Venezuelanalysis is accepted in academia as a reliable source; this was covered at WP:RSN a long time ago. The "Land Research Action Network" is not a source, the Venezuela scholar Gregory Wilpert is, and he is used a source for a single historical fact about the 60s where complaints about Chavez-related bias are irrelevant. The Monthly Review source is not great, but it'll do in the absence of anything better for that info. Rd232 talk 12:36, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Current situation
This is largely Bolivarian drivel. Agriculture has been destroyed by Chávez Frias, with the El Frio affair particularly notorious. On 13th August it was reported in El Universal that: "In the first five moths of 2012, paddy and white rice imports have exceeded the purchases in the last five years. According to data released by the National Statistics Institute (INE), 438,420 tons of rice entered the country until May, a rise of 75.61% compared to 249,440 tons imported in 2011. Rice imports come mainly from the United States. In 2011, the United States exported to Venezuela 99,973 tons of this item, whereas in the first five months of this year it sent 234,110 tons. The difference is 134% more than last year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Driain (talk • contribs) 14 August 2012 07.20
 * Those are more recent figures than in the article. Provide the El Universal source, and we can add it. Rd232 talk 13:49, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

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