Today, Argentines consume pears of China, oranges from Egypt, Pork of Brazil and Chilean tomatoes. Argentine regional economies are going through an unpublished crisis originated in the National Government’s decision to indiscriminately open the food imports produced by our country.
This situation urges the producers of regional economies, mostly micro, small and medium enterprises, who see with concern how only in the first quarter of 2025 food imports doubled.
A few months ago, Bananeros de Salta producers they had to give the harvest that they could not sell as a result of the Bananas entry from Brazil and Boliviawhich mainly affected small producers of native communities. The Citrus importparticularly lemon, had catastrophic consequences for Salta. The same happens in the region of Whosewhere Tomato producers They gave their harvest because the canists bought foreign tomato a 20% cheaper.
Argentina is the second global producer of pears, therefore, the news of greatest impact was the arrival of a cargo of 1597 Boxes of fresh pears from Chinawith the brand of the company Botu Dongfang Fruit, which put in check to the Fruit sector of the Alto Valle de Río Negro y Neuquén. This worsened the already critical situation of the small Valletan producers, historically pressured to sell their production at a low price to large exporters.
Crisis work
These policies further weaken the situation of rural workers, who are in danger of their only means of subsistence. It is a historically vulnerable sector, which had been supporting the effects of flexibility and deterioration of their rights imposed by the reform of the agricultural work regime implemented in the Base Law.
It is the obligation of any legislator to propose alternative solutions to social conflicts to guarantee the effective exercise of citizen social and cultural economic rights, within which the productive policy and food policy are framed: in both regional economies have a central role.
It is urgent to implement actions that promote the Development of the national productive network and promote the aggregate of value in exports and the generation of roots. In addition, it is necessary to design a territorial planning that generates a planning and development framework for regional economies; that promotes the population of the territory, food sovereignty and incorporation into global markets through added products.
The strengthening of micro, small and medium enterprises and the establishment of a tax promotion regime Based on the incorporation of new technologies that allow transcending the primarization of agri -food production are crucial to achieve productive development and employment generation. This is the historical claim of the sector.
As a national senator I have worked to sanction a law that defines and establishes a Regional Promotion Regimea pending debt in the Argentine legal system. These measures can lay the basis for implementing public integral development policies that guarantee internal food supply and opening to new international markets. This project proposes the private public articulation in the design of sectoral policies in pursuit of a virtuous development of the Argentine productive framework.
In sum, The import of food did not translate, nor do it, in the low pricebut in the preeminence of the extractive model and in the destruction of our food production, a strategic sector that no serious country allows it to be affected.
Private public articulation is essential to achieve a federal and comprehensive development model that projects our country as a transcendent global actor in the new international context where food production will have more and more relevance.
Nora del Valle Giménez is a national senator by Salta de Unión for the country.-
Source: Ambito
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