The increase in the cost of grains, due to the Russo-Ukrainian war, which are destined for animal consumption and the great drought that devastates our country, greatly affect the production of the agricultural sector of our territory, there is high mortality in cattle and dairy workers (dairy producers) warned that if they continued like this, there could be a shortage of their products. For this, Sergio Massa launched the Impulso Tambero program.
From the province of Córdoba, considered the productive heart of Argentina in this area, the Economy Minister together with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, chaired by Juan José Bahillo, launched this investment program for the dairy industry that will provide up to 15 pesos per liter of milk to the smallest dairy farms, and 10 pesos per liter to the largest dairy farms. Sergio Massa He pronounced that the initiative will achieve “sustaining the feeding capacity during the next 4 months.”
“We have come to return half of what the sector pays in withholdings on public investment,” he said. Sergio Massa and added that the measure will also be so that the sector can “continue producing and supplying in that enormous chain that feeds the Argentines, and that in some way also feeds the economic strength of Argentina with imports.”
Regarding these imports, the Minister explained that “last year, despite the crisis, We broke the record for milk exports from Argentina: 1,700 million dollars that this sector generated in foreign currency for Argentina” and “produced 189 liters per person for all of Argentina. On the other hand, in the launching ceremony of the program, the minister thanked the dairy cooperatives that “reinvest year after year.”
The request of the tamberos
At the beginning of December, the dairy farmers sent a letter to Secretary Bahillo, where they urgently requested a meeting with the Government due to the difficult situation of drought they are facing and which negatively alters the production of their sector. In this case, the executive director of the Argentine Dairy Chain Observatory (OCLA); Jorge Giraudo mentioned that the situation of his business could not be worse.
Then, in mid-December, the dairy farmers again asked to sit at a dialogue table with the Government because, with the worsening of the situation, a shortage could occur in the fall. Twenty days later, today, they received the response from the Government with the Impulso Tambero measure.
