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Oscar Herrera Ahuad, Governor of Misiones, he made a strong defense of the regional economies pointing out that they intend to be “a great gondola in the supermarket of the world”. The president spoke during the Democracy and Development cycle organized by Clarione.
“One of the most important issues in my province concerns the regional economies. The Misiones revolution must be accompanied by these,” he said.
“In this supermarket in the world, no one can be excluded. Regional economies want to be a big gondola. The governors have been fighting this for a long time, “he said.
He said that “the struggle” in his province “has always been on the side of the regional economy” and recalled that they have “two unique products in Argentina”, citing yerba mate and tea.
In this sense, he used the example of the yerba mate producer to question that “he charges 46 pesos per kilo of green leaf, when the package is worth between 600 and 1,000”.
“How much does Argentina contribute to a single regional system? What would Argentina do if one day missionary producers said ‘today I no longer produce yerba mate ‘? They won’t pay $ 600 for a pound of yerba mate, they’ll pay $ 2,000 for importing it from somewhere else, “she warned.
And he made a request to the institutions: “May they help us when we have to stand in front of the national units that fight the price for the producer. There is the component of industry and that of the gondola, but always the component that suffers the most is the producer“.
Oscar Herrera Ahuad in the Democracy and Development cycle in Malba. Photo: Andrés D’Elia
“You hear about political decisions, I need patriotic decisions. We have to protect those 12,500 producers, “he exclaimed.
Herrera Ahuad believed that advancement in regional economies “will grow the workforce like all small and medium-sized enterprises.”
In this regard, he criticized those who “say that there are no people working on the farm”. And she stressed: “What competitiveness can a producer who charges 46 pesos per kilo have in competing against a social plan that collects his money every month? There is no margin left for the manufacturer to have an employee come and cut the yerba mate “.
“If we add to this that the cost of production is much higher … We are the only province that does not have natural gas, we are not even in the project for the next few years,” he warned.
And he concluded: “It is not the same thing to make a decision for an industry in central Argentina that has gas, fuel, low cost energy”.
Born in Santiago del Estero, Oscar Herrera Ahuad has lived in Misiones since he was 10, a province he has ruled since 2019.
Pediatrician by profession, he developed a career in the health sector, passing through various hospitals until he entered the public administration during the second government of Maurice Closs. He later served as lieutenant governor during the tenure of Hugo Passalacqua.
The president was part of the third panel of the fourth edition of the Democracy and Development Cycle together with Juan José Bahillo, Secretary of Agriculture of the Nation; Gustavo Bordet, governor of Entre Ríos; Manuel Otero, director of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture; and Ricardo Buryaille, national deputy, president of the Agriculture Commission of the Chamber of Deputies and former minister of the sector.
Source: Clarin
