Producers ask the Government for financial assistance for frost damage

Producers ask the Government for financial assistance for frost damage

He announced that he hopes to meet with the Minister of Economy, Serge Massanext Monday in Mendoza, whom he will ask to “accelerate aid between the provinces and the Nation”.

In this sense, from Mendoza, the provincial legislator of the Popular Union, George Difonso, He pointed out that “in 50 years a Minister of Economy never came to put the body next to the people of Mendoza due to inclement weather. Massa is a responsible minister who takes care of the problems.”

Sources from the Ministry of Economy confirmed to Télam that the minister will travel to Mendoza on Monday.

Difonso also raised the “severity of frost damage in different sectors of the provincial and national territory” and specified that “the production of grapes, vegetables, aromatic and almost all fruit trees has been affected, harming the work of producers and causing very serious economic damage,” he said.

They estimate that the overall losses in Mendoza reach 20%, although in some areas of the province the losses reach up to 50%. Similar losses were also recorded in some crops in Patagonia. In crops of Uco Valleythe damage reached 80%.

Temperatures reached as high as 3 degrees below zero.

Source: Ambito

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