The deputy of Open Town Hall, Álvaro Perrone, He anticipated that he would present a request for reports to the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP) due to the situation of the poultry market, after reports emerged about a possible shortage of power cuts chicken and projected price increases above the inflation.
After the Uruguayan Chamber of Poultry Processors (Cupra) will deny shortages and increases above the IPC, Perrone considered that “an import opening measure greatly affects Uruguayan producers.”
The legislator indicated at a press conference that “the concern comes from the national poultry chain” and spoke of “the ministry’s intentions, through importers’ complaints, to open a new window for chicken imports, alluding to the fact that the price has risen”.
However, he contrasted that situation with the views of the producers. “They tell us that the price has not increased, there is no verification of that and there is a good stock of national product,” he said. Perrone.
However, he explained that the request for reports “has to do with the measurement made by the MGAP regarding the evolution of the price to open imports”, so the lobbyist leader intends to access the information on the evolution of prices “discriminated by cut.”
“The poultry sector, which is mainly concentrated in cannelloni It is a very dedicated sector that also needs its protection,” he said. Perrone and stated: “Many times they cannot do it alone and they need the political system to push that forward. A measure to open imports affects them enormously.”
The origin of the conflict
The claim came from businessmen of the Association of Meat Distributors and Importers of Uruguay (Adicu) and the butchers of the Meat Sellers Union (UVC), from where they demanded that the government make a previously agreed quota of 5% of chicken consumption more flexible.
The request sought to cover the “insufficiency” of meat in the poultry market, based on a report from the National Meat Institute (INAC), which recorded its first decline in chicken consumption in four years.
Faced with this scenario, Cupra issued a statement in which it stated that not only that “there is sufficient supply of chicken in the local market”, but also that “the price does not have abnormal variations to the usual ones close to the CPI”.
“Once again we must go out to clarify the distorted information that the UVC and Adicu decide to disseminate among the media,” he declared. Frederick Stanham, the CEO of Cupra.
Source: Ambito
