After a meeting between the main representatives of the productive sector, the Agricultural Chamber of the East (CAO) rejected the export suspension of beef And they demand lifting restrictions. The meat producers had a meeting with the government for today in the morning, but it was suspended.
“At times that we request better conditions, certainty and legal certainty to increase our productivity and thus generate greater security in food supply to the population, jobs and currencies; The government responds with greater prohibitions ”, Klaus Frerking said, president in exercise of the CAO.
He added that for export restrictions, price bands and a series of limitations to supply chains “with the speech to guarantee production” for domestic consumption, Until now they were a failure Because these measures have generated in the course of time greater shortage.
For example, it continued, until before 2010 the domestic market was supplied with rice and corn and some surpluses were exported, “When exports of these items were prohibited, production fell And today the population pays the consequences of wrong decisions ”for the reduction of production due to these measures.
On the other hand, the representative of the productive sector said that It is intended to show the population that the government is concerned about the economic crisis that Bolivian families are going through, restricting meat exports, however, in the end the bad economic situation is due to the mismanagement of the economy that is not the responsibility of the producers.
“We demand that the authorities, what for responsibility with the population, immediately raise exports restriction. We request the President of the State (Luis Arce), the immediate change of the vice ministers of the area, Before they generate greater problems in the supply of products to the population due to their lack of capacity, ”he said.
He also reported that In 2024 there were 348,113 tons of meat and a quota of 41,745 was authorized to export equivalent to 12% of production.
“This naked irresponsible handling and media show of the measures Regardless of the consequences of the future for the population, ”Frerking said.
Finally, they demanded that the Executive “contribute and put their good offices” so that the Legislative Assembly (ALP) immediately repeals the seventh additional provision of Law 1613 for the General State Budget (PGE) 2025.
At the meeting was also Hernán Julio Nogales, president of the Confederation of Livestocks of Bolivia (Congabol), who He referred and clarified the issue of beef prices. He indicated that in Trinidad, capital of Beni, the average price paid to the producer is Bs 29 per kilo and in Santa Cruz is Bs 32 per kilo.
“We want to emphasize the population and conjectures can be taken for them, but we are to defend the producing sector that perceives those amounts. Us We are price makers and we are governed to supply and demand”He clarified.
Oswaldo Barriga, Chamber of Exporters, Logistics and Promotion of Investments of Santa Cruz (CADEX), recalled that Since 2011 the government has been imposing export restrictions such as price bands and quotas.
“All they do is put a force shirt to the productive apparatus. Since 2011 We have not been able to generate the growth that neighboring countries have had, We lose markets and stop generating greater export income. ”
