In a context of international prices in fall and after the expiration of the temporal reduction of withholdings to soybeans and corn, President Milei will meet with the referents of the field. The sector will demand concrete measures to relieve tax pressure and improve competitiveness.
The President Javier Milei will hold a key encounter with the Agricultural Entities Link Tablein a context of growing discomfort of the sector due to the validity of export rights, particularly in soy and corn complexes. Both products currently face the lowest international values of the last fifteen years, which deepens concern among producers.
The meeting, which was anticipated by Nicolás Pino, president of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA), will be held with an open agenda. Pino, considered the leader with greater proximity to the president, described the meeting as “a gesture” of the government towards the countryside and pointed out that “the issues that concern us the sector will be addressed.”
Among the points that are expected to raise rural entities, in the first place, The definitive elimination of exports withholdings, a review of the INTA situation and the elimination of the so -called “health barrier” in Patagonia.
The appointment will be coincided with the arrival of the first animals to the Palermo property, where next Thursday will begin a new edition of the traditional exhibition of livestock, agriculture and international industry, organized by Mrs. The event, which will run until Sunday, July 27, plans to have the presence of the president in his closing day.
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The meeting will take place in a Critical moment for agriculture. On June 30, the temporary reduction period of withholdings for soybeans and corn ended, while the extension did remain for wheat and barley. Faced with this panorama, the agroindustrial sector andwill notbaseing its order on the fall of international prices and a real exchange rate that, despite the recent increase in the dollar, remains insufficient to improve export competitiveness.
Days ago, the president of the Confederation of Rural Associations of Buenos Aires and La Pampa (Carbap), Ignacio Kovarsky, expressed harshly his discontent in the absence of concrete measures. “This government still did not meet anything”he warned, and pointed out that “the producer’s pocket does not endure anymore.” In turn, he criticized the current taxes: “Export becomes increasingly difficult, and export rights are a robbery, with any government.”
Source: Ambito
