Lacalle Pou proposed the creation of a mandatory basic insurance for producers
“Perhaps the next State policy will be an irrigation policy”, projected the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, at the opening of the 26th Expoactiva. The president considered the possibility of creating mandatory insurance to increase the number of contributors and make policies cheaper, so that producers can face extreme weather situations. He recalled that the Government has already adopted 30 emergency measures.
The annual meeting is organized by the Rural Association of Soriano, it takes place at kilometer 255 of route 2 and brings together, between today and Saturday 18, about 350 exhibitors of various nationalities. It is considered the largest agro-industrial sample in Uruguay.
At the inauguration, this Wednesday the 14th, Lacalle Pou was accompanied by the heads of the Ministries of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP), Fernando Mattos; Transport and Public Works, José Luis Falero; Labor and Social Security, Pablo Mieres; National Defense, Javier García, and Environment, Robert Bouvier, as well as other members of the Executive Power.
The president was received around noon by the mayor of Soriano, Guillermo Besozzi, and representatives of the organizing union, before inaugurating the summer harvest in a planter. Lacalle Pou toured the fairgrounds and inaugurated the MGAP and Argentine Republic stands.
“Today they are all there,” said the president, referring to the directors of public companies and decentralized services who attended the opening of the fair. “And they’re all on the broader spectrum. We always talk about rural life, rurality, which has a transmission pulley with business, in this case, agriculture ”, which is the productive sector on which the exhibition focuses, he expanded.
Lacalle Pou recalled that the Government took a set of 30 “conjuncture, emergency” measures to alleviate the climate crisis, but, he warned, the insured hectares are still very few. In this sense, he expressed: “We have to start thinking, and all those who are dedicated to this activity know that the more the base of contributors expands, the cheaper the policies are.”
He pointed out that perhaps a mechanism similar to mandatory automobile insurance (SOA) can be incorporated into agricultural activity. He considered that a measure of these characteristics would make the policy economical enough so that producers, in the face of a situation, such as a drought, “do not remain on the side of the road.”
He also stated that, similar to forestry, in which there is a national policy with the public and private sectors, “very involved”, “perhaps the next State policy will be an irrigation policy.”
Lacalle Pou opined that, in a context of more frequent droughts, if irrigation ceases to be strictly treated by the UTE or MGAP and becomes a State policy, with an acceptable insurance policy and established plans, it will be “another face with which we will look at the process”.
