04/28/2021 7:01 AM
Clarín.com
Rural
Updated 04/28/2021 8:17 AM
The Government has been seeking for some time to try to stop the rise in meat prices in the country's gondolas and butchers, which in the first quarter rose 7% in March and more than 70% in one year.
In this context, the Secretary of Commerce implemented a series of measures, such as permission to export through a Sworn Declaration of Meat Export Operations (DJEC) that was known a week ago and later, they announced the end of the half beef from 2022.
In addition, they continue with the programs of 8 popular cuts at cheaper prices until the end of this month after an agreement with the exporting refrigerators.
Ranking of buyers so far in 2021.
But this Tuesday it became known that the Secretary of Commerce, led by Paula Español, asked the Coto Supermarket to
stop buying property in the Liniers market
.
Coto is the main buyer in the Liniers Market.
During the year he has bought more than 31,000 heads.
And this was also the largest client with 545, paying a lot almost 200 pesos per kilo, which angered the Government, as explained from the Delsector.com portal
Ranking of buyers for Tuesday, April 27.
Thus, after receiving that message,
the company announced that for now they would stop participating in farm auctions
.
The president of Argentine Rural Confederations,
Jorge Chemes
, indicated that he spoke with Eduardo Crouzel, head of the Liniers market and assured him that the Secretary of Commerce forced them to remove Coto from the list of Liniers buyers.
"They are asking for an urgent meeting with Minister Basterra," he said.
"The government brought down Coto from the Liniers market, there is surprise and anger in the sector for having to experience the failure of the past again. The same recipe, the same result, the country loses opportunities again, it really brings sadness and dismay," he said.
Horacio Salaverri
, president of the Confederation of Rural Associations Buenos Aires and La Pampa.
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