Venezuelan Food Crisis

A country like Venezuela, with large economic inputs, currency in dollars from its black gold, oil, has failed to solve the food crisis currently faced by the absence of good agrarian reform, economic policy, to ensure the production, staple food crop, and the little concern of governments for the operation, efficient production of the field, dragged on for years.

It is inconceivable that the country becomes dependent on food imports, when the ground has the means to be a producer and what is more, until the proposed habérselo exporter. A country where food is scarce as is felt in the stores, supermarkets, often the absence of eggs, milk, meat, rice, potatoes, grains, vegetables and others.

The current Venezuelan government identified with Socialist ideology should pay more attention to the food crisis, establish programs, plans to give way once and for all agricultural policy is effective, allowing the retrieval of basic food production, that productive use of land, large numbers of hectares that the country has and who have not taken advantage of, cultivated, exploited, prevent further depend on the import of agricultural products, animal meat, sugar and even milk.

It is not surprising that it is said, that ignorance of the economic management of the country when you know the basic needs creating a situation of shortage, and leading to some to wonder is it that the government wants to have this situation to keep their populism and blame the producers?. This action is the most unreal known, the producer of the field does not invest in seed or livestock or poultry industry because they can not lose money, with prices that has established the sale price of the producer to the distributor and the consumer and not can be produced, the supply chain can not be activated and the direct producers can not have a marketing chain because there is no room for such commercial management.

El Diario El Universal, said that supply failures have been reported in the food sector ceased to be a cyclical problem to become a structural problem, because all the strategies they have implemented both the National Executive and the private sector to alleviate the situation have not been sufficient. A study by Datanálisis during the last week in Caracas 60 shops (supermarkets, warehouses, supplies, and informal trading Mercal) revealed that levels of scarcity in products covered between 20% and 25% in the last six months, while foods that are not subject to price control failures recorded moderate between 5% and 11%.

The fact that Venezuela has faced and is still worsening supply failures of milk, eggs, sugar and oil, exacerbated the hardships to be borne by consumers, who must get up early to buy any of these official subsidized rationed items .

It is known that Mercal network, established since 2003 and stocked in over 70% with imports, have serious flaws they perceive daily supply consumers in public and private networks.

It was a fact that President Hugo Chavez announced an opportunity

that his government would earmark 500,000 million bolivars (232.5 million

dollars) to import food and close the gap. Is this a correct measure

Why not invest in the production of derelict acres, bad

exploited?

According to polling data and Datanálisis, markets are

supplied only by 70 percent, while the network has a popular market

deficit of up to 30 percent on products.

Traders argue that the shortage is the result of

price controls imposed by the government since 2003. And the government

argues that the shortage is due to hoarding and speculation.

Other factors that would influence in a shortage of at least a dozen

staple food, is the rise in consumption, low production

the industry and delays in the authorization of foreign exchange for imports.

There are also shortages of meat, milk powder, chicken, rice, corn flour, sardines

and legumes, among other products, which are not sold in supermarkets.

The government tries to address this crisis to do business with neighboring countries

Venezuela and Colombia buys eggs, Colombians speech

produced 9,000 million eggs a year, and are able to send up

2,700 million, constituting 30 percent of production without affecting the

domestic price

20 000 tons Colombia Venezuela also sells crude palm oil per year, without any customs duty applied on it

It's amazing how much the fact that Venezuela buys grain, to the extent that when they ship to Puerto Cabello, it collapses with the operational capacity of the port, because it has neither the logistical nor the staff or the space required to download and store the product. The last time in July were licensed to import 500,000 tons of corn destined for food processing in animal feed concentrates for a period of 30 days, when the average arrival time is between 90 and 120 days. 12 ships carrying bulk grain arrived, the port has 22 quays of which nine are intended for anchoring boats grains, and can not cope.

For the current Venezuelan government under the leadership of President Lt. Col. Hugo Chavez, the crisis is due to the Venezuelan oligarchy, as opposed to economic and social reforms of President Chavez again tries to destabilize the nation speculating on the prices of products staples. After the coup of April 2002 and the oil sabotage of December of that year, the elite want to cause a food crisis and trigger unrest in the country. aporrear.org. added that the Venezuelan supermarkets disproportionately increased from the price of basic products such as meat, sugar and cereals, which became inaccessible to the population and thus created serious food difficulties. According to the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV), the artificial inflation affects about a quarter of the basic basket and plays in the first place more modest layers. Thus, prices increased on average by 66% and in some cases doubled. For example, the price of chicken meat suffered inflation of 110% and 245% of the cheese

"The increase has been observed in the price of meat is due to the interest of some distributors and retailers to maximize profits, given that Venezuelans now have more purchasing power?, Said Maria Cristina Iglesias, Minister of Popular Power for Industries Light and Commerce

The truth. that the government is facing shortages of basic foodstuffs, and should, once and for all give way to programs, agricultural activities to resume the situation, taking advantage of the productivity of land, encouraging farmers to commit to supply the country with the agreement of the parties involved and where, do not punish the Venezuelans with no commodities for their survival, health, quality of life, otherwise there may be conflicts favorable step for anyone.

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