#Steeven.™ Posted May 5, 2023 Posted May 5, 2023 The requested documentation is essential for the actors in the chain, registered in the Banana Control System, to keep their registry active. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) reported this Thursday, May 4, that it enforces the minimum price of bananas and gives all members of the banana chain a period of no more than ten days to present the documents that enable them to do this activity. "The presentation of the requested documentation is essential for the actors in the chain, registered in the Banana Control System, to keep their registry active," the ministry said in the statement. The State portfolio also reaffirmed that it enforces the payment of the minimum support price for the banana box, which was established at $6.50 and has been in force since January. The request made by the MAG, through a statement, arises after banana producers supported the inclusion of the spot price system -at market price without contracts- in the draft Law Regulating the Production and Marketing of Bananas, which currently passed the second debate in the National Assembly. They also pointed out that the non-recognition of the spot price in that law harms small producers. They cited cases in which it has been sold at a minimum support price, at $4, $3, even $2 a box, but since the only modality of the minimum support price is in force, the producers have had to pay taxes on that price and not on the actual received. In the statement, the ministry cited article 308 of the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code, which refers to the sanctions of deprivation of liberty for those who do not pay the official minimum price of support or indexation established for agricultural or livestock products, among them, bananas, corn, rice, etc. https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/economia/precio-del-banano-el-ministerio-de-agricultura-da-10-dias-de-plazo-a-toda-la-cadena-para-que-presenten-documentacion-nota/
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