This weekend, the agrarian federation Argentina (FAA) convened for this February 28 an assembly of producers next to the Buenos Aires-Rosario highway, at the access to Arroyo Seco, at the intersection of highway 9 and route 90.
The reason for the mobilization is to demand from the Government more help from the Government to alleviate the devastating effects of drought.
“From the FAA we have decided on this call due to the strong impact of the drought, the frosts and the hailstorms that caused havoc among small and medium producers”said the president of the entity, Carlos Achetoni.
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The Argentine Rural Society (SRA) joined the call. Its president, Nicolás Pino, pointed out: “We need not only measures for the situation but also background changes such as removal of holds and the different exchange rates.
This Tuesday, Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA), another of the entities of the Liaison Table, joined the assembly next Tuesday.
Achetoni indicated that “the economic crisis with high inflation and the various exchange rates mean that the situation does not give for more” and affirmed that “the aid announcements only remain that”.
The rural leader considered that Government assistance is arriving “late and badly” and that there is a considerable number of producers who are “not contained” by the announced benefits.
For their part, from the CRA they affirmed that “the situation is critical and the governments of the three levels of the State have to give answers to each claim and concrete solutions to solve this crisis”.
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What measures are requested from the field
According to CRA, the most relevant and urgent points are:
- Implement real mechanisms that remove the tax siege on the affected producers.
- Suspend income taxes.
- Suspend tax foreclosures and account blocking.
- Suspend constraints in Banks.
- Lift embargoes.
- make a comprehensive tax reform and progressive.
- Eliminate exchange differential.
- Establish an Export Rights Elimination Plan (Withholdings).
- Create Multi-risk Insurance.
- Change the Emergency Law by considering it obsolete.
- Credits that come from the usury rate generated by the State itself.
- Address the problems of regional economies.
LM
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