At the other extreme, the products that presented the smallest difference between the price received by the producer and the price paid by the consumer were chicken (2.4 times), eggs, peppers and squash (2.1) and potatoes (1. 7).
The low difference in the IPOD of the potato “It is due to the rearrangement of prices to producers, who were producing below costs, and to the decrease in supply for industries, which had to go out to buy from the domestic market and caused a decrease in supply in the concentrator markets”explained the entity.
In relation to pepper and squash, both products presented the same gap between origin and destination and, in addition, their producers were among those that obtained the highest price increases in the month, he added.
In this regard, CAME pointed out that “the price paid for peppers had an improvement of 57% as a result of a decrease in production due to the difficult access to essential inputs, while for squash the producer received 30.5% more than in August, due to a reduced offer caused by the droughts registered in Santiago del Estero”.
“On average, the producer explained 26.7% of the final sale prices”indicated the Confederation, which in turn specified that “the largest share was obtained by potato producers (56.7%), while the lowest was achieved by those of squash (5.7%)”, consistent with the gaps price for each product.
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what happened to the fruits
In the case of the fruit and vegetable IPOD, the prices of the 19 fruits and vegetables that make up the basket multiplied by 4.9 times in September, while in the case of livestock the difference was 2.9 times.
CAME maintained that its analysis “shows that the primary producer is not a price maker, so it is not responsible for its escalation either”.
“In general, the differences between origin and destination are due to a set of behaviors, such as speculative behaviors, adopted by different actors in the value chain that abuse their dominant position in the market, basically hypermarkets, packing sheds and cold chambers,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
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