Government prepares a subsidy that will benefit about 36,000 fishermen to boost the sector. How much is the amount of this financial support?
With the objective of accelerating the economic reactivation in the fishing sector, the government of Dina Boluarte prepares the delivery of a bonus of S/500 for formal artisanal fishermen. In the words of Vice Minister of Mype and Industry, Javier Davila, Yesterday, during the Council of Ministers, the approval of the decree that could be published today or in the next few days was put on the table for debate. He added that along They have been working on the preparation of the list of beneficiaries of the so-called Bono Pescador 2023.
“Information is being extracted from the Produce register, from the Regional Governments and from the entry and exit register of the port captaincies,” Dávila explained during his participation in the Foreign Trade Commission of the Congress of the Republic.
The Mype and Industry official explained that the monetary subsidy of S/500 It will be delivered, for the only time and in an exceptional way, to about 36,000 formal artisanal fishermen. To carry out the measure, the Executive must allocate a budget of S/20 million.
When will the Fisherman Bonus be delivered?
Javier Dávila calculates that the delivery of this S/500 bond It will not take more than four weeks for its execution. Initially, they had indicated that yesterday, Wednesday, October 8, they would approve the emergency decree; however, there is still no further light on the resolution.
Other measures that will benefit fishermen
In parallel, the official indicated that they have been working on other measures to promote the fishing sector such as budget increase of S/17 million for credit expansion through the National Fisheries Development Fund (Fondepes). This measure is intended to double the number of credits to grant them during this 2023.
He explained that Produce will allocate close to S/17 million to expand the scope of the A Comer Pescado National Program for five years. In addition, they will increase promotional fairs throughout Peru, such as FISHING educatesFrom the Network to the Table, PROMfish and Fish in my dining room.
Source: Larepublica
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