The kilo of meat in Caracas increased by 675.5%
President of Invelecar, Carlos Albornoz, states that the shortage of meat in the country is 85%
In 675.5% the price of a kilo of meat in Caracas was increased according to a tour of El Universal by several butchers in the center of Caracas, and in the municipal markets of Quinta Crespo and Catia whose counters were mostly empty .
The managers of the businesses explained that they had many limitations to sell the product and without receiving merchandise from the distributors and wholesalers for more than 15 days and in others since the one that the National Executive decreed on September 6 the regulation of the prices of bovine meat to 90 sovereign bolivars the first cuts and to Bs.S 85 the third ones.
In some stores, with limited quantities, the first cuts: black pulp, goose, chocozuela, square or round boy, rear point and solomo de cuerito prices vary between 600 and 698 sovereign bolivars, which represents 675.5% increase in relation to the price regulated by the Government of 90 sovereign bolivars per kilo.
As for the second meat only red bone is obtained that is very used for soup to 300 sovereign bolivars per kilo, while the other varieties such as palette, skirts and cuts of beef are scarce.
While most of the stores in the center of Caracas and in the municipal markets of Quinta Crespo and Catia the butchers presented their empty refrigerators, in the streets of the city there were some stalls selling meat "without any sanitary control". part of the government authorities.
85% shortage
Carlos Albornoz, president of the Venezuelan Institute of Milk and Meat (Invelecar), denounced that the National Executive is demanding 60% of the herd to supply the large centers of consumption.
He explained that Apure, Barinas, Guárico and Zulia are the states most affected by the government measure at the time he denounced "the controls" in Cojedes, Yaracuy and Portuguesa, which he described as a form "of nationalization of livestock production in the country" .
The business leader said that the situation in those states, plus the interventions in Bolivar and Monagas "are the causes of the shortage of meat in the country," which is located, he said, at 85%.
Asked about the one-year ban on bovine trade with Colombia decreed by the Venezuelan government due to the epidemiological risk of foot-and-mouth disease in the neighboring country, Albornoz described it as a logical measure of reaction to the outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Colombia.
Albornoz, who was also president of the National Federation of Cattle Ranchers (Fedenaga), considered that the commercial border closure "is a unilateral measure that will not have important consequences" because dairy products, sausages, cattle and swine "is very marginal "Those who enter the country from Colombia.
"Venezuela is the only country in Latin America that has not been certified free of foot-and-mouth disease by the Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Organization and the International Health Organization."
He reported that the Brazilian government agreed to donate 21 million doses to the Venezuelan cattle ranchers against foot-and-mouth disease, an achievement achieved after a meeting with the representatives of Fedenaga, Fedeagro and Invelecar.
Analysis and Summary of the Publication
Lamentablemene in Venezuela has become impossible to buy a kilo of meat because to buy some meat the Venezuelan must save 4 months of salary to go to the market and try to buy some meat if you are lucky enough to get something.
Since the meat in many states of Venezuela has become scarce and the farmers did not want to take the cattle to the slaughterhouses since the value of the cattle is very low and the merchants do not want to pay more than the price stipulated in official gazette.
This has led to the closure of 64% of the butchers in the country and this will continue until the government does not put a order in domestic trade.
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