PDVAL

Producción y Distribución Venezolana de Alimentos (PDVAL) is a nationwide food supply network in Venezuela. It was created by Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) in response to the high food demand and presumed stockpiling by private food sectors, creating food shortage.^[1] Along with the related Mission Mercal, it was started following the Venezuelan general strike of 2002–2003, which saw concerns about corporate control of food distribution.^{[citation needed]}

Producción y Distribución Venezolana de Alimentos (PDVAL)

Company type	State-owned enterprise (Public)
Industry	Food
Founded	2008
Headquarters	Venezuela
Key people	Rafael Ramírez, President - Hugo Chávez
Parent	Petróleos de Venezuela S.A.

PDVAL food distributor.

PDVAL's goal is to distribute basic goods such as meat, milk, chicken and other goods that have prices regulated by the government.

Controversies

Main article: PDVAL affair

From June 2010, PDVAL started being administrated by the Vicepresidency of Venezuela after the discovery of tons of decomposed food supplies around the country.^[2] Government opposition denounced the finding of thousands of containers with a total of 130.000 tons of decomposed supplies.^[3]