A new meeting this thursday Table of beans of the province of Santa Fe, a monthly meeting that brings together industry leaders. On this occasion the new officers Chamber of Beans of the Argentine Republic (Clara), who assumed office last week. The meeting revolves around the possibility opened by the Secretary of Foreign Trade and the Secretary of Santa Fe Province to form a 10-member committee among exporters and importers, who will travel to Canada, the world’s leading producer of vegetables.
drought that affected the region of Santa Fe The production of pulses has been greatly affected. “There was almost no crop,” he said Point Biz Mauricio Diaz, Reference to Matters Food. “We are a company that sells legumes, we work on imports and especially exports,” he explained of the Rosario-based company.
about the trip Canada Diaz assures that its objective is mainly technological, with the aim of learning from Canada’s experience in the production of lentils and peas, being the northern country the world leader in the legume sector.
With regard to the outlook for the market, and especially because of the complexity caused by the severe drought, they had to resort to increased imports of lentils and, at the same time, recently began importing peas from Canada. The latter is a product that, to this day, Argentina has not imported from abroad. “We felt the need to supply the can and fractionation industry. In Argentina internally, lentils are one of the most consumed foods,” said the representative of Mattress Foods.
On the other hand, he added that the trip to Canada “represents a valuable opportunity to acquire new knowledge and techniques that will contribute to the development of local bean production in Santa Fe Province.”
Regarding imports and the country’s macroeconomic situation, Díaz insisted that for now they are doing well and highlighted the support of the provincial government in this sense. “We believe they understand the situation and they approve the necessary headway to import and above all, they are allowing us to do currency transfers,” he commented.
The meeting, which took place at SUM in the Alto Burro building in Puerto Norte and where Mattress Food has its offices, was also attended by members of the Santa Fe Legume Table, and representatives of the Rosario Stock Exchange (BCR). , member of the Association of Argentine Cooperatives (ACA), the Argentine Agrarian Federation (FAA) and the National University of Rosario (UNR), the provincial authority and other institutions.
