When INESPRE was created, its main activities were:
Merchandising and acquisition of products directly from local producers, to intervene in the price of the market.
Stimulate production by increasing the income of producers.
Administrate social programs for the distribution of agricultural products.
Regulate activities that improve the merchandising of agricultural products, and provide information to producers about the prices of the products in the institution and in the domestic and international market.
Objectives
General:
Implement a transparent system of agricultural merchandising that guarantees the market stability of agricultural products.
Specific:
Reinforce the role of the institution as a coordinator and facilitator of agricultural merchandising, to help solve conflicts between interest groups.
Increase the offer of agricultural products through its Producers’ Markets.
Increase the number of Producers' Markets to supply the country with quality products at affordable prices.
Strengthen the market information system to guarantee that producers have clear expectations of price variations in the market.
During the current administration, Jorge Radhamés Zorrilla Ozuna has developed important initiatives to help local producers, consumers, and the institution which has contributed to improve the financial situation of producers, consumers, and suppliers. The new philosophy of the institution is to “offer support and services in the national agricultural system in order to improve the profitability and competitiveness of local producers as well as the purchase power of consumers, specifically those of lower income”. Its new vision is “to be in charge of the merchandising process, contributing to the reduction of the margins of intermediation to benefit producers and consumers by working efficiently and with transparency”. The institution's lineaments inside its new mission and vision are:
Provide agricultural producers with the necessary storage infrastructure, through loans or leases, so they can face fluctuations in the market behavior.
Promote the creation of markets in which national agricultural producers can sell their products, benefitting themselves and consumers by diminishing intermediaries.
Identify and promote new investment opportunities in the agricultural sector.
Stablish capacitation centers for producers to increase their ability to manage agricultural commercialization.
Reinforce the institution's role as a mediator in the agricultural sector, to help solve conflicts between interest groups.
Under Jorge Radhamés Zorrilla Ozuna´s administration, INESPRE has benefitted consumers, guaranteeing fair prices to agricultural products and strengthening local producers' trust by protecting them from sudden price fluctuations in products of massive consumption. Other accomplishments include:
Bigger diversity of products sold through INESPRE
Reduction of price speculation by distributing products effectively, using as an element of market stabilization the direct sell to consumers of lower income.
Creation of more than 1,500 jobs
Creation of more than 2,072 programs including the “Mercados de Productores”, “Bodegas Fijas”, “Bodegas Móviles”, and “Agromercados”.
More than 3 million people have been benefitted with the execution of the program PROCOMER
More than 2,235 local producers have been benefitted
