October 3, 2022, 22:30 PM
October 3, 2022, 22:30 PM
The Vice Minister of Internal Trade, Gróver Lacoa, accompanied the delivery of meat to merchants in the Los Pozos market, as part of the commitment assumed by the Government to avoid shortages at points of sale. The measure was agreed to in the morning in the face of threats from the National Confederation of Bolivian Meat Workers (Contracabol).
“This morning An agreement was signed a contract supply of meat, between the company BFC and the Departmental Federation of Retail Meat Marketers. In this way, we are materializing the delivery in a real way,” explained Lacoa.
For his part, the representative of the aforementioned Federation praised the agreement resulting from the “direct work” that allows the supply ofquality meat at a fair price in the markets”.
In allusion to the prices that the product will have for the final consumer, he mentioned that the value of the hook kilo is Bs 20.50. Therefore, “The sale price will be Bs 35 or Bs 36 for first-class meat and Bs 28 for second-class meat,” he confirmed.
With the delivery of the various pieces of meat to the sellers of the Los Pozos market, the aim is to “regularize the price to the extent that the supply is normalized.”
This Monday afternoon Contracabol issued a resolution in which it warned of the rise in the price of a kilo of meat from tomorrow Tuesday. In the same statement, the Government is required to intervene to regulate prices and points to ranchers, auction centers and exporting refrigerators for the announced increase.
Vice Minister Lacoa referred to the threat launched by the Confederation regarding price increases. The authority disqualified the determination made by “a leadership that is leaving, completely illegal”. The demand of the sector “looking for an increase none type of fundamentals” and he reiterated the “c”commitment not to increase the price” by the central government.
Agreement with meat suppliers supplies markets in Los Pozos /Photo: Fuad Landívar
Agreement with meat suppliers supplies Los Pozos markets / Photo: Fuad Landívar
