From the MGAP they pointed out that for a good supply of products an “active” farm is necessary.
He Interim Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP), Juan Ignacio Buffastated that to achieve a good supply of fruits and vegetables At more competitive prices in the domestic market, it is essential to support agricultural production from the State to keep the sector “active.”
This Sunday, within the framework of the 93rd Annual Assembly of the Society for Agrarian Development and Defense, which took place in Rincón del Cerro (Montevideo), the leader highlighted the work of the producers despite the successive crises in the agricultural sector.
“The farm has enormous challenges and opportunities,” said Buffa when speaking in front of those present, among whom was the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou. “He is an enormous developer of the best of rurality that the agricultural sector has to show,” he remarked before adding: “Developer of that social fabric that one would like to see throughout the country.”
The prices of some fruits and vegetables have suffered increases in recent times due to excess rain, the cold wave and the lack of sun in the crops, a phenomenon that, it seems, will continue to affect the market throughout the current month.
“The UAM without producers is nothing more than old iron”
In that sense, he pointed out that the Metropolitan Agri-Food Unit (UAM) It is a long-standing project in the country, but it is currently going through some problems and that “such an institution without producers is nothing more than old iron”, but, in turn, “producers without the UAM are “they lose the opportunity to have a fundamental development lever”.
“We have worked for the emergency, we have worked for the most structural things with the resources that the sector has,” said Buffa, who assured that the government portfolio “could not allow” the fact that “resources that were available for the farm were not used in the corresponding year”, in reference to the injection of more than 650 million dollars for “reaction and promotion” policies that were carried out throughout the current government administration.
Source: Ambito
