Meeting with President Santiago Peña to Open New Markets for the Meat Sector

Representatives of the Paraguayan Rural Association (ARP) held this Monday at Mburuvicha Róga a meeting with the president Santiago Penawhen they applied for the opening new markets for the meat sector and consolidating existing ones. There were also authorities from the Paraguayan Meat Chamber (CPC) in addition to the Paraguayan Association of Meat Producers and Exporters (Appec).

In a press conference after the meeting, the the president of the ARP, Daniel Prieto, they said they asked the president the need to maintain Paraguayan meat exports to the United States market, against the blockade which is intended to be established by the Parliament of North America. He said that in recent years, the produce department has been operating at a loss. The meeting was at the same time this Monday with the Enabling red guarani protein in the Canadian market.

While Mario Balmelli, head of the ARP Meat Commission, He admitted that they handed over work done by technicians to the Executive Branch on the current position of the value chain of the aforementioned food product, which includes both agents, businesses and services. “It is known that the agricultural sector contributes about 75% of foreign exchange earnings and in this framework of things, meat represents an important value for export earnings,” he said. .

Balmelli said that Peña told them about his special efforts with some countries to conquer new international markets. He reiterated that one of the goals of the livestock sector is to focus on Southeast Asia. “We left this meeting satisfied, we appreciate the welcome we received from the Government, we are working together and we want to grow in the whole meat value chain, we going through a difficult time, with very depressed prices and by working together we will get out of this situation,” he said.

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For his part, head of the Paraguayan Association of Meat Producers and Exporters (Appec), Ramiro Maluffhe pointed out that Paraguay’s livestock sector is going through a difficult time and This causes the movement to continue causing the livestock herd to decrease.

“In the last five years The livestock herd has decreased by about a million headsand this happens because the medium and small producers, especially the majority, have to sell more cattle than they should sell, to maintain their herd, to they can cover their expenses,” he said. said.

He reiterated that the only way to fix the problem is to reverse it through opening new markets, making information transparent and ensuring that businesses grow in their export values, going through cheaper competitions than the one currently available. “Unfortunately, more than 65% of the work today is highly concentrated in two companies, this creates a problem in the values ​​that the producer receives. The idea is to be able to work on opening up new markets so that there is cheaper competition,” said Maluff.

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