Banco Nación launched lines of financial assistance for organizations of the popular economy

Banco Nación launched lines of financial assistance for organizations of the popular economy

The announcement was made within the framework of the Consultative Council of the Social and Popular Economy, whose objective is “to bring solutions to the specific demands of the sector, prop up projects and facilitate new financing options for these productive segments,” said a BNA statement.

“We take on the challenge of working on and strengthening the financial inclusion policy, designing products and services appropriate to the sector, and generating links with producers in the popular economy, especially family farming,” summed up the president of the BNA, Eduardo Hecker.

The official considered that the financial system “has to be at the service of all and, in particular, aimed at providing credits to small producers involved in the popular economy, with the purpose of recovering a productive, integrated Argentina with a public bank operating. next to the sectors that need the most “.

Guillermo Wierzba, coordinator of the meeting and director of the BNA, highlighted the support and inclusion of family farming, “by implementing a specific line for a sector that neoliberal policies had thrown into non-formal financing circuits, which operate at high rates of interest”.

He also stressed “the importance of this field production to collaborate in solving the food problems of the popular sectors.”

Representatives of various organizations of family agriculture and social economy participated in the meeting, such as the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE-Rural), the Peasant and Indigenous Assembly of Northern Argentina (Acina); and the National Peasant Federation (FNC).

Also present were leaders of the Federal Argentine Rural Women Association (Amraf); the Union of Land Workers (UTT) and the Indigenous Peasant National Movement of Santiago del Estero (Mocase-MNCI), among other groups.

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