Uruguayan producers requested support for cranberry cultivation
Amid unprecedented plight for the agricultural sector, blueberry producers in the Republic of Uruguay launched an SOS to the central administration.
In a trade the Union of Producers and Exporters of Fruit and Vegetable Exporters of Uruguay (Upefruy) to the holder of the Economy portfolio, Danilo Astori, required “restore the fiscal solvency to the level prevailing until the 2016 harvest for the 2015 crop and schedule the circumstances to overcome the current inconveniences for the next few years".
According to the website of El Observador de Uruguay, the note, signed by the president of the Union of Producers and Exporters of Fruit and Vegetable Exporters of Uruguay, Carlos Fraschini, warned that it is “almost unfeasible to produce profitably in Uruguay in a historical environment of blueberry cost reduction, and due to the prices of producing, collecting, packing and moving measured in dollars; and the entrance costs in each market (tariffs)".
To illustrate the difficult moment, the letter reminds Astori of a previous note, from last November 14, where the Minister of Economy was revealed “the historical march from 2003 to date, the main milestones that modified the prototype of the blueberry business and how 75% of the companies closed, disappearing more than half of the cultivated area with a contraction from 820 to 370 hectares".
Nonetheless, "the farms that are in production try to combine improvements and new earlier and more productive varieties that optimize their capacity, in an adverse context of negative arches and investment not yet recovered”, Supported the letter to Astori.
It was in the past month of November that the government was required “the support of the VAT tax credit for the year 2016, as authorized by the Executive Power in the 19.407 legislation, to strengthen this transformation”.
The letter perpetuates that, even in a year like the 2016, where price difficulties constrained leaving half of the blueberry area uncollected, the sector “required more than 370 thousand wages (permanent 71.500 and almost 300 thousand wages during the year: collection and pruning), in strips of the interior of the nation, conquering low-training labor. "
Source: segundoenfoque.com
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