The Minister of Productive Development, Gustavo Puccini, headed the presentation of the Productive Roads program in the town of Dos Rosas and La Legua. He was accompanied by the provincial senator Felipe Michlig, the provincial deputy Marcelo González, and the communal president, Carina Frank.
The first stage of Productive Roads will involve an investment of 2 billion pesos in 62 kilometers of work, including Provincial Route 22 that links Eusebia, Bicha and Colonia Tacurales in the Department of Castellanos with Colonia Bossi and Dos Rosas and La Legua, in the Department of San Cristóbal.
After the meeting, Puccini stated, "Santa Fe needs to improve its infrastructure and rural roads are a fundamental part to achieve it. That is why we are here, to commit ourselves with a concrete and feasible proposal, but also to propose a productive plan for the province. Santa Fe is the first province to export dairy products. We produce 80 million liters of milk per year".
"That is why we have the obligation and responsibility to take care of that podium, to ensure connectivity in the dairy farms. Because we know that a single day without being able to withdraw milk is an entire lost production. That is why we are going to propose a first stage for the dairy sector that will have an investment of more than 8 billion pesos destined to 30 districts in 12 departments", explained the Minister of Productive Development.
"This administration is present throughout the province; just as we did in the campaign, we continue touring each town, day by day, kilometer by kilometer. Santa Fe is the second exporting province thanks to the wealth generated and worked in regions like this one. We know it, we value it, and we want to promote it", said Puccini and added "Productive Roads is a very ambitious proposal because it will not only improve competitiveness, but it will also change realities, improve quality of life, connecting production but also children and teachers with their schools".
The head of the productive portfolio remarked the importance of infrastructure investment as a state policy: "We want to carry out works that will last, actions that will transcend, programs that will not end in four years of administration. We want to generate sustained policies that grow, feedback, and go beyond the circumstances. Long-term, in-depth policies that change and improve realities. Productive Roads aim at this".
More than 2 billion pesos of investment
In turn, the Secretary of Productive Infrastructure, Mauricio Basso, detailed that "these works will benefit two schools, 154 students, 38 teachers, 26 beekeepers with 3,165 beehives, 142 agricultural producers, 1,800 agricultural hectares and 19,000 livestock hectares with 21,600 head of beef cattle. Also, producers with 15,000 head of dairy cattle in 76 dairy farms that produce 88 million liters of raw milk per year". Basso pointed out that "out of every two liters exported, one comes from Santa Fe and 70% of the provincial production comes from the Departments of San Cristóbal, Las Colonias and Castellanos".
Likewise, Michlig affirmed the need to work on connectivity and roads in the department of San Cristóbal to generate new markets. "Besides boosting what we produce most, which is milk and honey, we have to go for other issues that allow us to create more opportunities and more jobs. For that we need investments in the rural area, more connectivity, and better roads. It is not an expense; it is an investment. We are convinced that, together with our governor Maximiliano Pullaro, we are on the right track. We must all work together to achieve, from Santa Fe, the Argentina of work".
