Caracas, March 24 ( Elizabeth Ostos ) .- The Government does not shake the pulse of the time to import food directly from suppliers of nations which have close, if deemed convenient.
This was announced by Minister for Food Carlos Osorio, to ensure that the executive's policy is clear: "food should not be viewed as a commodity or as a means of doing business. It is imported and marketed to fill needs population, especially the poor. "
In this regard, said private firms could import," but under the premise that should be monitored by the State on all vital and strategic products such as wheat, milk, sugar, yellow corn and oil. "
All these items will be monitored by the state," to the point that if we have to import everything to protect the population, we will. It does not mean we are doing (...) but we will not allow private sector to come and start to manipulate and change the international prices, because they are interested in the exchange business, "said Osorio.
whipped so-called "briefcase companies" who wanted to import food. About
recent revisions and increases in some products such as pasta and wheat, the holder of Power said that "the adjustment in bread and pasta was forced by the rise of wheat on the international market.
About future rate hikes was not specific. He said only that "we have sat with (producers) of oil, sugar and milk evaluating, sent the team to the plants, and adjust what we have to adjust." www.notitarde.com 
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