The Bolivian food company (EBA) opened Friday in the municipality of Viacha, department of La Paz, the Cereal and almond derivative processing plant, with an investment of Bs 24.7 millionas part of the “200 works of the Bicentennial”, which the Government intends to face during the month of August.
In an interview on the state channel Bolivia TV, Grover Espejo, responsible for the EBA food line, called to “Support industrialization policies” of the government and assured that the company founded in 2018 is financially self -supporting, It contributes with resources for the different bonds that are delivered to disadvantaged sectors and is a price regulator of certain products in the national market.
“A rather wide economy moves. We are also talking, only with the derivative plant in the municipality of Viacha, we are working around 2,000 indirect jobs in the sector ”, Mirror highlighted, mentioning mainly food producers such as milk, chestnut and quinoa.
“As another of the objectives that the company has, apart from the dynamization of the economy, it is also the issue of the Price regulation. We are also working with the different producers to be able to intervene, as a state Somehow, to arrive with fair prices to producers. We are seeing the issue of milk, chestnut and quinoa price regulation, among the main ones, ”said the executive this Sunday.
Different opposition sectors and analysts insist that state companies created by the Government in the so -called Economic and Social Development Plan 2021-2025, They are deficit and one of the main factors for the high public spending that generates a bulky deficit For state coffers.
However, companies like EBA, even project Export your products to neighboring countries such as Chile. “With this implementation of the capacities we also managed to reach a better national coverage and, on the other hand, we are also seeing international markets. Recently we are seeing the Chilean market, which basically has a requirement of these products, Initially with the cookie (of almonds) we will begin the distribution, but without neglecting to arrive, in the first instance, to all the Bolivians, ”added Espejo.
Accessed about the announcement of some candidates, of privatize state companies, The person in charge of EBA remarked that the company “has demonstrated self -sustaining with the generation of revenues, which are also redistributed to all sectors of the country, also through bonds (…). The fact of thinking about, perhaps assigning these types of companies, not only would cause a Economic damage to the company As such, but we also have to think about the different sectors with which we work, ”said Espejo.
It should be noted that EBA is one of the contributors to Universal prenatal subsidy for lifethrough the development service of productive public companies (SEDEM).
