They highlight the importance of the foot-and-mouth vaccine, warning that “without health we have no market”

Every year in livestock, two vaccinations are carried out against foot and mouth disease. In the first campaign, the entire herd is vaccinated, absolutely everything, and in the second, which is done at the end of the year, all categories are vaccinated except cows and bulls. This year there were significant increases in vaccine prices.

In Formosaeach area in the province is managed by an intermediary foundation that administers the vaccines and sets the prices, which have now suffered an increase in accordance with the inflationary wave that the country is experiencing.

These days, some union entities in the livestock sector made public their concern about the price of vaccines.

On this subject, The morning spoke with the president of the foundation SORUFOR (Rural Societies of Formosa) y Secretary of the Las Lomitas Rural Society, Carlos Kap, who acknowledged that “sometimes the producer complains that the vaccine is expensive, but I also want to say that without healthcare we have no market, so the vaccine is an investment, not an expense. If you don’t vaccinate, you don’t have healthcare, and we won’t have a market to sell it, we’ll have to eat it ourselves,” he said.

He also pointed out that there are currently producers who, for various reasons, reasons they are selling a calf worth 1,000 pesos for 800 pesos and at most 1,200 pesosvalues ​​that “are not enough for the producer to eat.”

He said that this may be due to not being able to arrive on time with the documentation corresponding to the auctions or due to the drought situation that affects the Formosa livestock. He indicated that this situation forces producers, especially small ones, “to depend on that person who arrives and pays him what he wants, not what he is worth.”

“So,” he stressed, “in this way the vaccine will always be expensive, any investment that is wanted to be made in the field will be expensive. Because at that price it is enough for the producer to eat, so that is a quite complicated issue, mainly for small producers.”

Besides, Kap He explained that “the vaccine is always handled at a historical price according to the calf, that is why I say that the producer who sells at 800 or 1,200 pesos barely has enough to live on.” He compared the difference with the prices given at a good auction, where the values ​​of the calf range between 2,300 and 2,400 pesos. “It makes a big difference for a small producer,” he warned.

In this sense, he highlighted the good prices obtained at the auction recently held in Las Lomitas, pointing out that “it sold too well and would have obtained about 200 pesos more per kilo if we did not have the drought we have at this time.

In this regard, he said that the drought that is being experienced in the Lomitas area is already affecting the water reserve and the pasture. “We no longer have a reserve of pasture or water,” he lamented, and explained that because of this situation “that cow has to be sold, because this way it doesn’t make it to winter, it dies sooner.”

Given this panorama, the leader of the Rural de Las Lomitas He made it clear that “there are circumstances that we also have to analyze. It is not all because the vaccine is expensive.”

He clarified that with the current values ​​of the vaccine “the costs are barely saved” for the foundations that have to fulfill health functions. “If we continue like this, there is a risk that the institutions in charge of vaccinations will not be able to move and fulfill the functions that they have to fulfill to preserve that vaccine, and so that it arrives with the cold conditions that it has to arrive and all the operational management that it has. “That’s because it’s not about buying the vaccine and having anyone apply it.”

Regarding the price of the vaccine, Kap pointed out that “the price of the vaccine is being agreed upon with the other entities, but there is an operating cost that will not change, and not only the operating cost, the cost of the laboratory has also increased significantly. , and we no longer handle that either.”

Producers say they did not expect “such a significant increase in the vaccine”

He president of the Pirané Rural Society, Carlos García Labarthewarned that “there was a significant increase” in the price of the foot-and-mouth vaccine for the current health campaign that starts on March 11, and acknowledged that “we are all a little surprised by the values ​​that are coming.”

In statements to The morningthe livestock leader said that although this increase “was to be expected,” “because it is not at all strange taking into account what is happening at the country level,” he indicated that “we did not expect such a significant increase, especially from the laboratory. ”.

In this sense, he recalled that regarding the prices of the vaccine “we were at 1,100 pesos for the laboratory cost and it went to 1,430 pesos per dose, taking into account that in this campaign all categories of animals, cows, calves must be vaccinated. , bulls, steers, young bulls, that is, older and younger.”

He commented that in the previous campaign, the price of the laboratory plus the other costs, such as the vaccinator, coordinator, SODUFOR, SENASA, and others“we had 1,350 pesos per dose in the eastern zone and 1,359.50 pesos in the western zone.”

He said that this is how the previous campaign ended, “but in this one we are going to start with a dose in the eastern zone at 1,680 pesos and in the western zone at 1,689.50 pesos for each animal. That is why we say that there is a significant increase with which the livestock producer will surely continue to suffer,” he lamented.

Garcia Labarthe He noted that, in addition to this increase, there is the issue of fuel and other operating costs, which makes everything more expensive because the vaccinators and coordinators must travel in vehicles to get to the western zone, where the dose is a little more expensive because vaccination destinations are further away.

Asked about the actions to be taken by producers to try to get better prices, he anticipated that “at Sorufor we intend to make a request to the laboratories, which are the ones that manufacture the vaccine, to see if they can review the price, let’s see.” “If costs can be reduced.”

In that sense, he reported that “on March 8, before the campaign begins, we have a meeting in our office in Formosa, to have defined and a little clearer what the price is going to be, if there is any.” modification in the price or continues with that final price.”

2024-03-03 10:53:58
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