“Production impact”: New bonuses and other measures, what does the Ministry of Industry and Trade propose?

Today, the Ministry of Production introduced the “Con Punch productive” program, which includes a number of measures for the production, aquaculture and fishing of Maypes.

Production Minister Sandra Belaunde argued that these measures are taken after the losses incurred protests industry companies.

“From Dec. 8 to Dec. 21, we estimate business losses were up to 380 million soles, which means that 160,000 companies were affected, equivalent to 94 million soles lost every day,” he commented.

Measures

A total of 7 measures will be applied and implemented over a period of three to six months from iinvestments over S/250 million.

One of the major measures announced is a S$500 award for artisanal fishermen, which will have around 40,000 beneficiaries.

“Bonus for fishermen especially for handicraft fishermen formal, according to our calculations, reaches 40,000 fishermen (…) The exact date (delivery) will be confirmed by the IEF, but this bonus will be given,” he said.

In the case of informal fishermen, such as those affected by the oil spill that occurred in January 2022, Belaunde commented that measures are still being evaluated along with the Ministry of the Environment.

For the fish sector, the provision of loans for fishermen and scaling up the Eat the Pescado program.

Other measures announced as part of Con Punche Productivo include the restart of MYPERU purchases. The Vice Minister of Mipe and Industry, Javier Davila, commented that the restart of the MYPERU procurement program is implied.

“88 million somoni will be allocated for the activation of the executing cores, we will have the opportunity to implement this program within the next 3 months. Speaking of implementation from the start of execution and generation of the first hours of service for mypes, here we are initially going to serve about 2,500 small and medium enterprises,” he commented.

The measures proposed for mips It includes building productive capacity through CITES with technical support.

Assistance will also be provided under the Tu Empresa program, consultations will be given on filing applications for public procurement.

In order to promote access to new markets, among other things, the approval of products, the articulation of communication spaces will also be taken into account so that mypes reaches more places.

In addition to this, Produces It is estimated that another SGD 88 million will be invested over six months to meet new product needs from the textile sector’s mayps production, benefiting 1,500 businesses.