After the dissemination of the 2022 inflation index that closed at 94.8%, which was the highest since 1991, the Minister of Economy Sergio Massa affirmed this afternoon that lowering inflation depends on “fiscal order, discipline, teamwork and Set goals and don’t change them. At the same time, he affirmed that “it requires a responsible look, from all the political, business and union leadership.”
“Hopefully we all have the eggs well laid to lower inflation in Argentina”said during the launch ceremony of the Argentine productive strengthening program for poultry, egg and pig producers in Entre Ríos, due to the additional rise in the price of soybeans, derivatives and oilseed-based foods during the validity of the second Program of Export Increase.
“Inflation is neither more nor less than the fever of a sick economy. The challenge that we all have, I as the main person in charge, is to encourage ourselves to lower the fever and face this disease,” said Massa.
As the spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti had advanced, the Minister of Economy referred to inflation just a few hours after INDEC released the CPI report for December, which completed the annual inflation data for 2022, which marked a historical record being the inflation of 1991.
Likewise, the Minister of Economy clarified that the journalistic versions that have circulated in recent days regarding an alleged launch of his candidacy for president in the event that he is successful with his economic policy are false, and that his only career “It is to lower inflation and make Argentina grow“.
“It is a race to follow that path of 22 consecutive months of job creation. Don’t put me on another race”warned the minister.
The Argentine Productive Strengthening Program announced by Massa seeks to compensate pig, poultry and egg producers for the additional rise in the price of soybeans, derivatives and oilseed-based foods during the term of the second Export Increase Program.
With this program, the beneficiary producers of the program will be helped with compensation of $30,000 per ton of feed for the animals purchased between November 28 and December 30 of last year, when a differential exchange rate was implemented for the soybean complex that brought the price of beans to between $90,000 and $100,000 a ton.
The same procedure to be able to determine aid to pig producers will be used for poultry and eggs, although in the first case the monthly average of chickens sent to slaughter will be taken and in the second case the monthly average of eggs sold.
In addition, Massa announced that just as aid was granted to the dairy, pig and poultry sector in the first days of the year, next week he will announce a program for the livestock sector. “Next week we will be in Santa Fe, so that all the producers who ran out of food have the assistance of a state present,” he said.
And he closed: “The idea that in Argentina it is the field or the industry has ended. Argentina is both, and this is the best example.”
