The Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Juan José Bahillomaintained that “the country is carrying out a strategy of dialogue and consensus with the different actors of the private sector to value our potential to supply the planet with healthy and quality food”.
The international prices of grains caused Argentine exports to be at record levels and estimates for grain exports in the year to be around $40.5 billion, a historical record. However, agro-exporters were not paying the usual amounts for the period and were asking for a differential exchange rate, since they considered that other producers in the region were more competitive.
Consequently, the Government presented the soybean dollar for $200 valid throughout the month of September. Within this scheme, sales were already generated by $3.5 billion. It is worth clarifying that this regime is only for soybeans and does not include other grains, which also register exceptionally high international prices, triggered by the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Europe’s main food supplier.
Among the highlights of the joint statement, the CAS stated that “in order to continue providing the world with healthy, safe, nutritious and sustainable food, we ratify our priority commitment in terms of sustainable production and adaptationas key work areas”.
In addition, the letter underlines that the CAS countries “have adopted practices and technologies to improve the sustainability of food production“, while assuring that in this sense “our livestock is highly safe in health terms, with sustainable production practices and an important source of protein.”
Likewise, they will reinforce their “commitment so that food production develops generating employment, promoting rural roots, guaranteeing the provision of ecosystem services and taking into account the characteristics of each territory”.
“We emphasize that, for decades, our production systems have been adopting appropriate practices and technologies to produce ‘more with less’committed to food security and the protection of natural resources,” the document said.
In addition, they reiterated their “very strong concern about the lack of progress in the agenda of multilateral reform of agricultural rules in the World Trade Organization (WTO)” and denounced that “far from advancing in the dismantling of historical distortions, some countries or trading blocs are increasing the adoption of para-tariff restrictions without a scientific basis and in a manner inconsistent with WTO rules in force, as well as disproportionately increasing the level of distorting subsidies granted”.
Source: Ambito
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