Missions is on the way to food sovereignty

Missions is on the way to food sovereignty

Herrera Ahuad said that “the concentrating markets demand a higher productive status because they cover producers from a large part of the province, so I have no doubts that over time or with a responsible and open administration to give all producers the opportunity to to be able to sell their products in that place, which will generate the impulse that the productive area needs, especially the smaller sector ”

214 producers

The launch of the fourth market concentrator for the sale of food produced in the missionary farms was inaugurated in the city of Eldorado, located in the north of the province.

The market will concentrate 214 producers from 14 municipalities that between Wednesdays and Saturdays will offer their products harvested and raised in the mission farms directly without going through “intermediaries”, which will allow a considerable reduction in the prices that citizens must pay on a daily basis when they buy products in different stores.

The vice-governor Carlos Arce said that in this way the provincial government “complies with the Law of Free Fairs and Concentrating Markets proposed by the president of the Chamber of Deputies of the Carlos Rovira Province, sanctioned in 2010 and which began to be applied with the creation of 66 provincial free fairs. This is the result of the shared effort between a provincial and municipal State present with the producers ”.

The commissioning was carried out by the Instituto de Fomento Agro Industrial (IFAI). “Concentrating markets and free trade fairs are the key to agricultural growth in the province and allow young people to stay in the fields, achieving local productive development,” said Ifai President Marcelo Rodríguez

In turn, the mayor of Eldorado Fabio Martínez affirmed that “we are working hard to make El dorado the productive pole of the northern zone and for this we have strong support from the provincial government.”

150 million pesos

The zonal concentrator market has an investment of about 150 million pesos. “It is made with the resources contributed by the missionaries through the payment of provincial and municipal taxes. Here you can see how the money returns to the people ”; said the president of Ifai Marcelo Rodríguez

The official stressed that the El Dorado zonal market is the only one of its kind in the country, “officials from San Luis, Formosa and Chaco came to Misiones to copy the model.”

Rodríguez announced the imminent construction of a concentrator market in San Pedro and the subsequent project of a similar one in Puerto Iguazú. “In San Pedro we are about to start construction, while we are beginning the survey of producers in the Department of Iguazú.”

The opening ceremony was also attended by the Lieutenant Governor Carlos Arce, the Ministers of Agriculture and Production Sebastián Oriozabala; of Family Agriculture Marta Ferreira; of Cooperative Action, Mutual, Commerce and Integration, Karina Aguirre, the vice president of Inym Ricardo Maciel, other provincial and municipal officials, communal heads of the north of the province, the president of the Electricity Cooperative of Eldorado Alberto Romero and producers in general.

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