While the president Luis Lacalle Pou He denied a bad relationship with the Argentine president, Javier Mileiduring his participation in the Rural Expo in Buenos Aires, the leader of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP), Fernando Mattoscalled to defend the interests of both countries.
This Saturday the president participated in the Rural Expo in the city of Buenos Aires and gave a good impression of his relationship with Javier Milei, after his questioning of the absence of the Argentine president at the last summit of the Mercosur has raised doubts regarding Lacalle Pou’s support for the government of the neighbouring country.
Meanwhile, Minister Mattos also visited the most important exhibition of the Argentine Rural Society and he said that it is necessary to promote relations between producing countries. “We must strengthen relations between producers, trade associations and governments in agricultural matters. The region supplies 30% of world production,” he said.
“We are competitors in foreign markets and at the same time we must jointly defend our interests,” added the minister regarding the new European regulations that require products to come from non-deforested systems. A provision that will increase the costs of producers and, therefore, reflects European economic protectionism that prevents products from the region from entering the market with greater difficulty.
On the other hand, he referred to the taxes paid by rural society. “We agree that withholdings are a distorting tax. I understand that the national government wants to remove them, when macroeconomic conditions allow it,” said the minister regarding the rates that Argentine producers have wanted to eliminate for 22 years.
He also referred to the president’s visit Luis Lacalle Pou and defined it as “a sign of friendship with Argentina and with the agricultural sector of the entire region.”
Lacalle Pou’s speech at La Rural
During his visit, the president sent the message about the good harmony between both governments after a consultation of Valor Agregado Agro during his visit to the neighboring country to participate in the Rural Exhibition which takes place in Buenos Aires.
In addition to highlighting the dialogue with Milei, Lacalle Pou He clarified that his visit was “as a citizen and not as a president”, with the objective of visiting the stand of “a sheep of a Uruguayan agricultural school”.
Although he admitted that he did not plan to make any speech, he was invited to the stage by the president of the Argentine Rural Society, Nicolás Pino, during the 136th edition of the International Livestock, Agriculture and Industry Exhibition at La Rural.
In this context, he said that “the agricultural activity It is the most basic in the world, but at the same time, it increasingly has more technology and demands,” referring to innovation in the agro.
He also mentioned that the activity in the field “has elements that affect national policies under an activity that is not governed only by what happens in Argentina and Uruguay” and he specified: “We know that we are price takers and when they move Australia and New Zealand or purchases of China It changes everything for us.”
On the other hand, in line with what happened during the week at an event in Rural Square, He highlighted rural unionism and the concept of “coopetition”, which includes cooperation and competition between producers.
“Maybe the rural unionism “It is not professional or a unique activity. The producers are on the other side of the fence, with their balance sheets and their things. Nobody requires them to practice unionism. To begin with, it is an act of generosity, nobody requires them to practice unionism, but it is an act that benefits us,” Lacalle Pou stressed in the neighboring country.
Source: Ambito
