OCHA data show that more than 800,000 people in the country will have food security, protection, water, sanitation and hygiene, education, shelter, nutrition and health needs by 2025.

Although a decrease took place during 2024, when more than 1.1 million people were in this classification, the amount is impressive in a country where both the urban ($247.60) and rural ($181.04) basic food basket had increases in February 2025.

The situation is worrisome when the number of grain farmers has been reduced by 30 percent in the last two decades, as well as the production of basic food items for Salvadorans, according to Mateo Rendon, spokesman of the Rural and Indigenous Agricultural and Livestock Roundtable.

During his participation in the interview program Frente a Frente [Face to Face] of the Salvadorian Telecorporación(TCS), the spokesman highlighted the important reduction of the number of producers from 600 000 to 400 000 in only 20 years, which affected the production of basic items.

He explained that the situation is worsening due to the migration of farm workers, as well as the increase in the cost of inputs and the age of the producers.

Rendon addressed another aspect that worries the unions, especially the livestock sector.

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