Tamberos expect a quick repair of the routes. Merchants organized a food voucher to keep the local economy active.
Beyond the work that the National Emergency System next to the departmental center that coordinates the Florida Municipal AdministrationThe private sector is also working to address the situation left by the storm in the department, with significant impacts on the productive and commercial sectors.
The Florida Business Chamber It brings together 1,500 companies that represent about 5,000 workers, including the Shopping Center, the Rural Association departmental and the subsidiary of the National Milk Producers Association.
“We ran a campaign that we called We rise together where donations of items are being received at the mall headquarters and money through an account that was quickly opened for us on Republic Bank“said the manager of the Florida Shopping Center, Magdalena Urchitanoto Ambit.
In addition, the local business entity together with the Municipality implemented a series of “climate emergency food vouchers”where the local government had 2 million pesos to help those affected by the recent climate episode.
“The mayor identifies the victims and gives them a voucher for food products and cleaning supplies. By changing the bonuses in businesses in the department, what we do is reactivate the local economy,” explained Urchitano.
Producers are concerned about damaged roads
The flood situation in the Santa Lucia Riververy close to the water treatment plant SBI led the agency to decide to cut service in the city.
This is also affecting local commerce at this time, mainly gastronomic services who have been forced to resort to their bottled water reserves and some tanks, worrying that the resource could become scarce in the coming hours.
For his part, the departmental representative of the Milk Producers Association, Horacio Rodriguezsaid to Ambit that most of the damage is included in the road that functions as an access point to the vast majority of the dairy farms in the rural area of the department. Also in many of them, blowing up of roofs and walls was detected, without this having greatly affected production given the time of year that the climatic episode occurred, the union member clarified.
Rodríguez said he is confident that joint work with the departmental and national authorities will allow the difficulties to be solved in the short term.
Source: Ambito
