Diana Mondino at Expoagro: “The 16 billion of the YPF process are equivalent to four years of withholdings”

Dressed for the occasion, with jeans, a backpack and a Panamanian hat, Diana Mondino arrived at Expoagro together with a large delegation of diplomats, including the ambassador of the United Kingdom, Kirsty Hayes. Brazil sent several representatives as did the United States.

“In all the years this exhibition has been going on, a chancellor never came“, the Expoagro authorities welcomed her, explaining that it extends over 150 hectares in San Nicolás, has a dynamic demonstration part of machinery and crops and another of stands. And where last year, despite the historic drought, they did business worth 1.6 billion dollars, a figure that could multiply this year-

Mondino was able to reciprocate by commenting: “Argentina has the solution to the problems the world faces in terms of food safety, in production methods that protect the environment and capture carbon.

“All this is hard to explain, it’s hard work,” the chancellor said. Alongside him, the secretary of Bioeconomy, Fernando Vilella, promoter of the “living cow” for sustainable production systems, illustrated the advantages of direct sowing. The central countries were reproached for this in passing “They talk about green economy while destroying the environment by torturing the soil”unlike the direct sowing method which protects them.

At that time Mondino praised the work of Héctor Huergo for evangelizing on the topic. Huergo is the director of Rural Clarin.

Next to them sat the coordinator of the Secretariats of Mining, Industry and Bioeconomy and the eyes of the minister Luis Caputo in these productive sectors, Juan Pazo, who His voice is not yet known.

In that intimate conversation, they asked about withholdings. “They are a disgrace and the idea is to lower them, but we must achieve fiscal balance. Imagine that the YPF process, for example, “$16,000 million requires four years of income withholding.”

This definition clarified that these taxes will continue.

The chancellor explained that her idea is to encourage exports so that each of the 8 billion inhabitants of the world consumes something Argentine, be it food, something produced by industry or the knowledge economy.

He assured that “there are 5 thousand of us at the Farnesina and we work well”, with obvious reference to the fact that there will be no staff cuts“If everyone works, we are few” he also anticipated that there will be very few political ambassadors.

“You look like a surgeon”, said Norberto Frigerio, director of the Nation, deliberately.“Neither surgeon nor cook”Mondino said. Someone pointed it out right away, but that’s how it is “finer than a chainsaw“and the chancellor smiled.

Vilella underlined this with the end of the regulations last January It was the best in recent years for meat exports and dairy exports grew. “These are objective data,” he stressed against corn enters China, bone-in beef and sheep enter Israel.

“Agriculture needs to bear the financial costs DESCEND because every Argentine exports half of a Uruguayan and a third of a Chilean”, recalled the organizers of Expoagro. “Everything is possible if there is stability”, they added.

Mondino explained that 70% of exports take place thanks to ten companies; “We want to expand and we will focus on SMEs,” he promised.

Sitting on golf carts to tour the exhibition, Clarín asked her about Javier Milei’s upcoming trip to Ukraine, France and Spain. Mondino, frankly, replied: ““I heard about it from the newspaper.”