Increasing tensions with the countryside: Meat exporters have left government programs to sell cheap cuts

Sources close to the Meat Export Consortium (ABC) have confirmed to the media that the company has decided not to continue participating in the official price reduction program, which will take effect this year and will be reviewed next month.

Through the initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the consortium supplied 6,000 tons per month to the domestic market, selling it at a low price in supermarkets.

Among the reasons that have led to this withdrawal are the restrictions that still exist in the export of beef and the competition from the informal sector that operates in the marketing of meat recently around the world.

Formal communication of the decision will take place in the future, but it has already been done to government officials such as Julián Domínguez, the holder of the agricultural portfolio, and Roberto Feletti, Minister of Internal Trade.

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