Along with Governor Omar Perotti, Sergio Massa relaunched the program that assists dairy farms and dairy farmers in the province.
The effects of drought especially affected the province of Santa Fewhich continues in agricultural emergency and seeks to sustain productivity and income rates despite the blow suffered by its main economic engine. Within this framework, and upon returning from the summit of authorities of the mercosur, Sergio Massa met with the governor of Santa Fe Omar Perotti to announce the Tambero Impulse Program 2.
The first instance of the program was launched in January this year and sought compensation for dairy farmers who support the production of a minimum of 5,000 liters of milk per day for “the enormous challenge of maintain the level of productivity, investment and supply volumes“, according to the Minister of Economy.
In that sense, Sergio Massa explained that it is “a program of $7 billionwhich serves nine out of ten dairy farmers in Argentina, which allows each liter of milk to have additional assistance for the next 60 days”.
In addition, he analyzed that “this is a State investment; some like to call these subsidies pejoratively, but they are the State investment to guarantee jobs, supply and the price of milk in gondola”.
On this, he remarked that “the objective is to reinforce the previous program, raising the number of liters produced, from 5,000 to 7,000, to encourage greater production and to dairy sector to be encouraged to produce more with the support of the State”.
The relevance of summoning dairy farmers from Santa Fe refers to the fact that nearly half of the country’s dairy producers are found in the province and 40% is an exportable product. Next to Omar Perotti and the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Juan Jose Bahillo, Sergio Massa He explained that the agricultural emergency fund was reinforced by $400 million. “Santa Fe is a symbol that Argentina is the countryside and the industry“, he qualified.
Finally, the Minister of Economy announced that on August 23 the “Dairy Pipeline“, which will look for supply energy to dairy farms and gas network to those Santa Fe communities that do not yet have this infrastructure.
Source: Ambito
