The meeting between the Government and the Liaison Table has been postponed

Secretary of Agriculture, Giovanni Giuseppe Bahilloinformed the executives of the Connection table of the field that the meeting that they would propose between the government and the farmers for this Friday “will certainly be next week at a date to be defined.

The official argued the intention is for the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, to participateand a moment could not be combined due to “program overload”.

The government had anticipated that the invitation would be sent, and also the realization was contemplated in some places in Buenos Airesbut no time or place has been confirmed.

With all, agricultural leaders continue to prepare for the meeting. Looking forward to more accurate measurements and the responses to the complaints they have been expressing for months, especially with regard to the exchange rate and withholdings.

But doubts persist on what the government will offer farmers to encourage dollar exports and income. There are no details yet.

The economy minister said that in principle it does not envisage a reduction in withholding taxes on cereals, but made it clear that he does not rule out any alternatives when he sits down to speak with the country’s leaders. And Bahillo asked not to reduce the agenda with the liaison table to “yes or no retentions”, and said that “it is not in fact possible to do so”.

However, one of those who specifically asked for a reduction in withholding was Carlos Achatonipresident of the Argentine Agricultural Federation (FAA), which he hopes “That the incentives go through a tax reduction schemethat stimulate the small producers of the regional economies, with measures such as the fiscal release and the withdrawal of withholding taxes on the first tons of production ”.

Bahillo anticipated this Thursday that the simplification of the procedures for the access of rural producers to the new soybean clearance regime It is one of the measures that the Central Bank is working on and which will be crucial in that meeting.

However, It has not yet been reported how this operation would be changed. “It is believed that in the circular of about ten days ago, which proposes a 30% scheme that can be regulated and maintained in dollars, it improves the conciliation process for producers’ access to that system, makes it more direct and eliminates some passages that weren’t attractive to the producer, ”Bahillo teased, but without details.

Achetoni praised the fact that Bahillo acknowledged that the producer is more reluctant to sell in an unstable climate, and this does not pass through a speculative question. The official speculated that the government must “generate the necessary macroeconomic conditions of stability, predictability and confidence for the producer to make this decision.”

This Thursday, the Central Bank has ordered the issuance of a bill in dollars stimulate the entry of external funds for the pre-financing of exports.

In this regard, the Vice President of the Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA), Gabriel De Raedemaekerhe felt that “more than eliminating this type of regulation, which is equally important, the gap must be reduced and this multiplicity of dollars must end “.