Amid calls for urgent measures due to the drought that is jeopardizing the countryside, the Economy Minister, Sergio Massa met this Friday with the Liaison Table.
The head of the economic portfolio arrived in Castelar after 11, accompanied by the Secretary of Agriculture, Juan José Bahillo, and officials from Banco Nación, AFIP and INTA.
The president of the Rural Society, Nicolás Pino, announced, without giving many details, that the government will implement a “package of measures” starting February 1st.
The producers’ representatives arrived at the meeting at the INTA headquarters after pacing the time for the economic portfolio manager to “avoid photo ads”.
The Liaison Table received the invitation on Thursday morning, its leaders met from noon and for several hours, and at five in the afternoon the 4 presidents of rural entities held a press conference on the sidewalk to underline that they did not want to lend themselves to a staging.
In addition, in a statement, the leaders called for an agricultural emergency and disaster to be declared so that measures such as the suspension of income tax advances, extensions or exemptions from provincial taxes can be implemented, among other.
What they held this Friday in Castelar was the second meeting in which rural leaders raised “the need for an extension of taxes, a shift in deadlines,” said the president of the Rural Society, Nicolás Pino.
And he continued: “We believe that the producer will not have the resources to meet the payments; financial assistance, which unfortunately we will need; and relief and recognition in the tax burden and in everything that is credit”.
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Source: Clarin
