The national government will invest $30 billion in the domestic market in the remaining months of 2020, through the Food Card (TA), a plan to ensure food for the most vulnerable sectors. In this way, the total investment during 2020 will be $90 billion. The card has one and a half million holders and benefits nearly three million children from 0 to 6 years old, pregnant and disabled receiving Universal Child Allowance (AUH). This was reported to Télam by sources of the Ministry of Social Development, which daniel Arroyo leads, and who also detailed that, from January to last August, the Food Card “dumped 60,074 million pesos on the domestic market”, which were mostly used for the purchase of fresh food in the country’s 24 districts.
“The Food Card moves the wheel of the economy from below: on the one hand, it improves the quality of food for families, and on the other hand, decentralizes purchases, mobilizes local food trade and production,” Arroyo told Télam.According to a survey from the Ministry, from January to August, families spent 62 percent of the money they receive monthly at the TA to buy food (mainly meat , milk, fruits and vegetables).
Distribution of the Feed Card by province
Buenos Aires, 557 thousand cards for 1,100,000 people.
Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, 41 thousand cards for 72 thousand people.
Catamarca 16,600 plastics for 29 thousand people.
Chubut, 12,700 cards for 21,700 beneficiaries.
Currents, 52,400 cards for 99,600 people.
Between Rios, 38 thousand cards for 70,400 people.
Formosa, 32,400 cards for 61,700 people.
Jujuy, 31,600 cards for 54,200 people.
La Pampa, 10,200 cards for 19,000 people.
La Rioja, 15,300 cards for 26,600 people.
Mendoza, 69,300 cards for 134,400 people.
Missions, 63,600 cards for 127,600 people.
Neuquén, 16,300 cards for 28,700 people.
Rio Negro, 20,200 cards for 35,800 people.
Jump, 65,700 cards for 125,000 people.
San Juan, 33,200 cards for 66,000 people.
St. Louis, 16,800 cards for 29,800 people.
Santa Cruz, 9,500 cards for 15,500 people.
Santa Fe, 110 thousand cards for 200 thousand people.
Santiago del Estero, 52,700 cards for 100 thousand people.
Tierra del Fuego, 3,400 cards for 5,400 people.
Tucumán, 70,800 cards for 131,000 people.
