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Omar Perotti, against the meat stocks: 'The solution is to increase production and not close exports'

2021-05-21T12:32:02.719Z


The Peronist governor of Santa Fe criticized the President's decision and spoke of "solutions that do not work."


05/18/2021 10:22 AM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 05/18/2021 1:31 PM

The government's decision to close meat exports for 30 days did not go down well in the countryside, but neither did it in sectors of the ruling party.

One of those who came out to criticize the measure of President Alberto Fernández was the Peronist governor Omar Perotti, of Santa Fe, who assured that "the solution is to increase production and not close exports."

"We have the conditions to supply the internal and external market, maintaining the possibility of exporting our products to the world," justified the Santa Fe president in his Twitter account.

There, in addition, he said that in his province "livestock generates work, investments and has immense potential" and that changes "in the rules of the game,

with solutions that do not work, only harm the future of the activity

" that so much offers "to the santafesinos."

The solution is to increase production and not close exports.

We have the conditions to supply the internal and external market, maintaining the possibility of exporting our products to the world.

- Omar Perotti (@omarperotti) May 18, 2021

Finally, he asked "among all" to work "for the future of the province, with a broad vision" that allows them

"to promote livestock, not to reduce it

.

"

Perotti's messages were in response to the government's decision to close meat exports for 30 days to contain the price after a sharp rise that has been taking place in the last year.

"

I had to explain to the exporters that the meat issue clearly got out of hand,

" Alberto Fernández said on Tuesday about the measure.

In statements to

Radio 10

, Fernández assured that they have to

"put order in those who export"

and spoke of prohibiting the sale of meat for export in the Liniers Market.

The President awarded this Tuesday the increase in the domestic price of meat to "many exporters who sell to China go and buy in the Liniers Market."

"So there the export price prevails, which is the one that pays the most. That only distorts the domestic market," he explained.


As Fernández himself communicated to Mario Ravettino, head of the ABC Consortium, which brings together all the exporting cold stores, while the closure lasts, the Government will implement a set

of emergency measures

aimed at ordering the operation of the sector.

Despite this last point, the closure of exports generated a lot of bad humor in the rural sector, which announced a halt to commercialization of ranches for 8 days, starting next Thursday, after a meeting between the four entities of the Liaison Table.

On that issue, Fernández said that

"

this

is the only reaction they have"

from the Table.

In this context, he highlighted the meeting he had with the exporting meatpacks and affirmed that he received proposals that he promised to apply.

And without giving further details, he said that they spoke of only the meat packing plants that have been dedicated to export can export;

put an end to the exporters "who export meats as they export shirts" and "return consumers to the domestic market."

According to data from the Argentine Beef Promotion Institute (IPCVA), in April prices on average rose 3% in relation to March but

65% against April 2020

, well above that set by inflation in that year. same period.

Strip roast and vacuum were the two cuts with the highest increases in one year, with 81% and 74%, respectively.

While consumption in the domestic market has been falling and is at 45 kilos, the lowest level in the last 100 years, according to data from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Meat and Derivatives of the Argentine Republic (Ciccra).

From Córdoba they also criticized the President's decision

Manuel Calvo

, the deputy governor of the province of Córdoba, also used social networks to criticize the measure of suspending meat exports for 30 days.

"

Stumbling over the same stone twice

. In that sentence we can summarize the decision of the National Government to suspend exports of beef for a period of 30 days, with the argument of controlling the price," wrote who today is in charge of the Cordovan executive before the sick leave of Juan Schiaretti, recently operated on a kidney.

Stumble twice on the same stone.

In that sentence, the decision of the National Government to suspend beef exports for a period of 30 days can be summarized, with the argument of controlling the price.

- Manuel Calvo (@ManuelCalvoCba) May 18, 2021

Calvo added that "the recipes - already applied in the past without results - constitute, therefore,

a double error

" and explained that "it is with incentives for the processes and not with limitations that better conditions are achieved."

"More production is more meat and more competitiveness," he stressed.

Finally, he stated that the measure "threatens production and runs the risk of consequences already seen: decrease in livestock stock, loss of jobs and disinterest and divestments." 

JPE


Look also

Meat exports: a sector that contributed US $ 3,126 million last year

Alberto Fernández justified the closure of meat exports: "That issue got out of hand, we have to put order"

Source: clarin

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