The entities most benefited by the plan to curb the high increases in consumer prices called Package Against Inflation and Scarcity (PACIC) would be Tabasco, Guerrero and Sonora.
Of the 24 products considered by the PACIC presented by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, onions, lemons and edible oil have recorded the greatest growth in their prices in the last year. The referred states show the highest increases in these goods.
According to the National Consumer Price Index (INPC) prepared by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), the onion showed an increase of 113.83% at the annual rate during the first half of April 2022.
It was followed by the lemon, with an annual inflation of 46.42%, and edible oils and fats, with a rate of 36.85 percent.
In the case of onions, it stands out that in 21 of 32 entities in the country the variations of the INPC were triple digits, and the rest, double.
The greatest increases occurred in Sonora (189.14% per year), Coahuila (184.35%), Baja California (166.23%), San Luis Potosí (159.25%), Veracruz (152.14%), Chihuahua (149.67%), Quintana Roo (146.96 %), Durango (146.41%), Nuevo León (146.02%) and Jalisco (138.57 percent).
While the lowest rates were in Mexico City (90.31%), Zacatecas (89.79%), Chiapas (88.83%), Michoacán (86.28%), Campeche (86.01%), Yucatán (77.47%), Guerrero (68.73%) and Querétaro (31.68 percent).
For lemon, price growth in the 32 entities ranged between 78 and 22% in the first fifteen days of April.
Guerrero had the highest rate, 77.70%; Next came Jalisco (68.16%), Zacatecas (63.20%), Oaxaca (62.68%), Veracruz (62.35%), Tamaulipas (60.18%), Baja California Sur (58.08%), Baja California (55.45%), Guanajuato (52.61%), Sonora (52.44%), Querétaro (51.11%), Quintana Roo (50.75%) and Sinaloa (48.85 percent).
Meanwhile, in the lower part were Nuevo León (38.53%), Nayarit (36.66%), State of Mexico (35.92%), San Luis Potosí (28.84%), Morelos (24.96%), Campeche (24.67%), Puebla (24.06%) and Yucatan (22.36 percent).
The third product with the highest growth of the INPC was edible oil, where the Mexican states registered rises between 59 and 24 percent.
Tabasco exhibited the highest rate, of 58.75% per year; the podium was completed by Oaxaca (48.92%) and Campeche (48.05 percent).
Other important increases were observed in Baja California (46.62%), Veracruz (44.97%), Tamaulipas (44.47%), Hidalgo (43.13%), Coahuila (40.95%), Michoacán (40.63%), Baja California Sur (40.07%) , Guanajuato (38.98%), Mexico City (37.62%), Zacatecas (36.73%) and Puebla (36.42 percent).
For its part, the smallest increases were Quintana Roo (30.81%), Colima (29.84%), Morelos (29.18%), Chihuahua (29.09%), Guerrero (29.05%), Sonora (27.99%), Jalisco (26.49%) , State of Mexico (26.13%) and Querétaro (24.72 percent).
In summary, the plan to guarantee that the basic food basket has a fair price, which will last only six months in the first stage and includes the participation of the Private Initiative, would benefit the entities that suffer the highest inflationary levels in the past. considered products and thus, counteract the decline in the purchasing power of families.
Measures
In addition to having a guaranteed price on 24 products of the basic food basket, the PACIC considers the increase in the production of corn, beans and rice; incentives for the Sembrando Vida program; free delivery of fertilizers; elimination of tariffs for the importation of ammonium sulfate and other basic inputs necessary for production.
As well as increasing road surveillance to prevent product theft; not increase the collection in toll fees; reduce costs and customs clearance times at seaports; among other benefits.