The Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, presented today in the Cordovan city of Villa María the Tambero Impulse Program, which will require an investment of $9,160 million to support the strengthening of small and medium-sized producers in the sector.
The detail of the announcements was in charge of the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Juan José Bahillo, accompanied by authorities of the province and the mayor of Villa María, Martín Gill, after a day of joint work in the area.
Massa highlighted that “last year, despite the crisis, the record for milk exports from Argentina was broken with 1,700 million dollars”, and that “the second record in milk production history was reached”.
However, the head of the National Economy portfolio said that although these results are encouraging, “we are facing a climate crisis (drought) that affects dairy farmers and therefore the importance of this Tambero Impulse Program,” he told the express that “being in the productive dairy heart of Argentina is an obligation”.
The Program grants a fixed sum in pesos per liter of milk for four months, according to two strata: those who have sold up to 1,500 liters per day will receive $15 per liter, those who have sold between 1,501 and 5,000 liters per day will receive $ 10 per liter.
The maximum amount of compensation will be $600,000 per month per producer, and in this way, the monthly average of liters of milk sold between the months of October 2021 and September 2022 will be compensated.
The presentation of the program was held at the property of the La Ángela family enterprise, in the city of Villa María, and from that place, Minister Massa praised the cooperative sector.
“They are the sum of the efforts of individuals to achieve a better result and also those who reinvest and risk year after year. They do not take it out of the country or keep it under the mattress, they reinvest it,” he stressed.
The main points of the program
With this initiative, the national government seeks to promote the development of an activity that is characterized by added value, job creation and territorial roots, thus driving the local economies of different regions.
The following are the main points of the announcement made today in the Cordovan city of Villa María:
• The Impulso Tambero program will require a total investment of 160 million to strengthen all small and medium producers.
• The initiative will improve the profitability of 79% of the country’s producers.
• The Program grants a fixed sum in pesos per liter of milk for four months, according to two strata.
• The first includes those who have marketed up to 1500 liters per day, they will receive $15 per liter.
• Those who have sold between 1,501 and 5,000 liters per day will receive $10 per liter.
• The maximum amount of compensation will be 0,000 per month per producer or producer.
• The measure will compensate the monthly average of liters of milk sold between the months of October 2021 and September 2022.
In this context, he pointed out that if there is a federal activity in Argentina that is precisely the dairy, therefore “today we are in the productive heart of Argentina.”
“Argentina is built on the basis of the sum of the countryside and industry; not on the construction of the fight between the countryside and the industry, but on the basis of transforming our countryside into a pillar of industrialization and development”, he remarked.
He also called on the productive sector of the country to “put more and more added value in this world in which the protein war gives us an enormous opportunity.”
In another section of his speech, he specified that the Argentine dairy sector, in addition to exporting, produced 189 liters per person for the entire country, but “we know that we are facing a problem such as animal feeding; and public investment has to be used to promote and sustain” that situation.
In this sense, he said that with the presentation of the Impulso Tambero Program “it allows you to return half of what the sector pays in withholdings on public investment”, which implies almost $10 billion to sustain the feeding capacity during the next 4 months, it is say, $15 per liter per dairy for the smallest, $10 per liter for the larger dairy.
This contribution will allow us to continue producing and supplying this enormous chain that feeds Argentines, and that in some way also feeds the economic strength of Argentina with imports, he remarked and explained that the program “reaches 8 out of 10 dairy farmers Argentines”.
Regarding the end, he considered “very important to understand that Argentina needs everyone. Nothing good comes from fighting, but a lot of good comes from working together: We sit at the table with the producers, with the ministers of the provinces, without looking at political opinions, ”she asserted.
Likewise, he reiterated that the State will always be there to “invest its resources to keep standing and grow that great lung of the Argentine economy that is the dairy industry, but above all that great heart of the Argentine agricultural sector with the roots and for the family tradition they represent.”
Prior to the announcement, Bahillo, accompanied by the Villamariense mayor, toured the Mercado de Abasto to meet with producers and explain about the programs that the national portfolio has, such as the case of the Non-Refundable Contribution (ANR), in addition to contributions for the purchase of agricultural machinery.
The officials also visited the dairy farm of the Mharnes Group to learn about the robotic system they use for milking.
For his part, Minister Massa, after the announcements and highlighting that the dairy basin in the center of the country produces and industrializes 25% of all dairy products consumed in Argentina, traveled to the town of General Deheza to meet with the oil sector.
