Agricultural producers are still mobilized in the interior of the country, in rejection of the current agricultural policy of the Government of Alberto Fernández. Today, a tractorazo was carried out from the Altos Fierro district to the city of Córdoba. In recent days, there have been different protests in the main productive areas of the country.
In Córdoba, mobilization has as its central axis to express the discomfort at the increase in withholding of soy by-products, and to call for a decrease in tax pressure, unification of the exchange rate and curb official intervention in the markets, which is now reflected in restrictions on beef exports, corn and wheat. To all this we must remember that the picture remains complex in many areas of the country, as a result of drought and fires, with significant losses in the productive and economic aspects.
Last week, following the announcement by the Government to close exports of oil and soybean meal, the producers of Altos Fierro held an assembly where they decided to declare a state of alert and mobilization. In dialogue with this media, Alejandro Dalmasso, who participated in that meeting, said: “We all agree that we need a change of course as a country. This system has already proved to be a failure for everyone who wants to work in this country.”
The mobilization of the producers arrived at the ring road at the access to the capital of Córdoba and then they will move to the intersection of Route 36 where they will hold an assembly.
Yesterday there was a similar protest in Entre Ríos, with a mobilization of producers along Route 14, linking the city of Ceibas with that of Gualeguaychú. At the end of the meeting, producers in the south of the province declared a state of alert and mobilization, and asked the Liaison Table to set the day, place and time for a large call for producers in order to express the rejection of official policies. They also sent a message to the opposition: to instruct their national legislators to raise their voices and give the debate that the Argentine countryside needs to give certainty and predictability to agricultural activity.
On the other hand, they demanded that the National Government and the Provincial Government “be consistent between their statements and their actions, and rejected the Government's latest measures. In this regard, they said in the document: “The increase in withholding of soy derivatives, “we end up paying for producers and constitutes a further increase in the tax burden borne by those who produce the land.”
This afternoon, the members of the Liaison Table will meet to finish defining the strategy for tomorrow in the meetings they will hold with deputies in the Congress of the Nation, and on the other hand begin to analyze the results of the assemblies and mobilizations that took place in recent days in districts of the provinces. in Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba and Entre Ríos, where producer bases are in a state of alert and mobilization, and they ask the national leadership for concrete union actions: mobilization of the Federal Capital and agricultural strike, among others.
Despite the fact that the Liaison Table has not so far ruled on the trade union steps to be followed, it is not ruled out in the area of ruralism that there is a call for a national mobilization. In this regard, producers in southern Entre Ríos called on the presidents of the entities to set the day, place and time for a large call for producers in order to express their rejection of official policies.
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