Minister reviews good native tomato manufacturing and hopes that costs might be regularized on the cabinets

Asunción, IP Company.– The Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Carlos Giménez, reported that, as deliberate for this season, an excellent nationwide tomato harvest is being recorded, though he regretted that costs proceed to be mismatched between what’s paid on the farm and what paid by the ultimate shopper.

The minister identified that nationwide tomato manufacturing continues to have a cyclical conduct and that we’re at present within the harvest season, with excellent high quality tomatoes accessible to the market.

Nevertheless, he warned that there persists a mismatch between the value at which the producer is promoting on the farm, between 5,000 and 6,000 guaraníes per kilo, and the value that the ultimate shopper finds within the cabinets, which in some instances stays round 25,000 guaraníes per kilogram.

On this sense, he requested consumers to favor the nationwide producer of their buy, resorting to advertising channels with out intermediaries, resembling producer festivals which might be held in numerous elements of the nation.

Thus, he additionally reported a gathering with grocery store businessmen to ascertain direct purchases that might enable the producer to promote tomatoes at a great value, and that there would even be a lower in grocery store cabinets.

“We wish them to make that direct hyperlink with the producers who’ve all of the situations to market with supermarkets,” the minister mentioned this Tuesday at a press convention.

Relating to the entry of overseas tomatoes, the minister indicated that the import allow continues to be allowed however that the Authorities will consider the validity of this authorization contemplating that the precedence is for small producers to have the ability to promote properly what they’re at present harvesting. .

“That is the time for them (nationwide producers) to have the ability to promote properly and this week we’re going to do all the pieces we will do as an establishment in order that the producers can promote properly,” mentioned the minister who didn’t rule out “intervening drastically to resolve this drawback.” “inconvenience” of the imbalance in advertising costs.