“The Feed card For us, it is the most efficient policy when it comes to ensuring that there is no Argentine who goes hungry: it reaches directly into the pockets of 3.8 million people without any intermediary. In addition, it allows families to eat together at home and consume fresh foods such as meat, chicken and cheese that have better nutritional quality,” they reported from the Ministry of Human Capital.
According to the report, the amount of money doubled that the beneficiaries of the Alimentar card receive, ensuring access to the basic food basket. The purchase of dry foods such as noodles, rice and grass administered by social organizations represents only 4.2 percent of the state’s investment in food.
“The discretion in choosing the beneficiaries was total, the quality of the food was lower in nutritional terms and the costs of the food were much higher than in any supermarket due to the bureaucracy involved in purchasing and distribution. The control of what happened to the merchandise once it left the state warehouses was null,” detailed the portfolio led by Sandra Pettovello.
“To put an end to this tool of extortion and the multimillion-dollar business for the cartel of food supply companies in the state, we decided that this 4.2 percent attendance controlled by social organizations be destined directly to the canteens who, in turn, must account for the food they buy. As a government we committed to eliminating intermediation and we are doing so. It will no longer be the piquetero organizations that are in charge of distributing food and social plans paid for by the national state with the money contributed by working Argentines,” the official statement stated.
According to him Ministry of Human Capitalfood spending by 2024 will be one trillion seven hundred seventy-seven billion pesos. The benefit Food will represent 90 percent of the budget, which corresponds to one trillion five hundred and eighty-eight billion pesos for this year. In addition, 47,000 million pesos will be allocated to the School Food Services (SAE); 53 billion of pesos to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP); 74,000 million pesos for purchasing food and 14,585 million pesos to other programs.
In the same report, it was described that during February 132 billion pesos through the Alimentar card to the more than 3.8 million beneficiaries of this program. In the month of December the amount had been 66 billion, which accounts for a 100 percent increase in the benefit. According to the portfolio, the objective of the budget being larger is “for the contribution to reach the families’ pockets directly, eliminating intermediation and ensuring access to the basic food basket.”
“Regarding the direct purchase of dry foods, which only represents 4.2 percent of what the State invests in food policy, the 50 percent are in the bidding processwhile for the other 50 percent of funds are being reallocated to other food programs that have greater reach. This modality, whose beneficiaries receive food through the intermediation of a social organization, has some disadvantages, such as the possibility that the food rots, delivery times are delayed or there is a lack of control in deliveries,” he concluded. the statement of the Ministry of Human Capital.
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