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The Secretary of Agriculture, Juan José Bahillo, attended the cycle this Tuesday Democracy and development organized by Clarín, in which the leaders of the Liaison Table spoke earlier, and claimed that the country it must “get out of the sterile dichotomies” that prevent it from “producing more”.
“We must seek more and produce more and get out of sterile dichotomies that immobilize us, such as the internal market versus the external market; or agriculture versus industry, “Bahillo exemplified.
The official assured that “the construction of the agenda is with all productive sectors” and also felt that he did not see it as a “loss of rank” that agriculture has passed from ministry to secretariat: “It will allow us to articulate and define an agenda”She said.
For Bahillo “all the conditions are in place for the production sector to continue to develop and grow”.
A week ago, Bahillo is in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and fisheries of the nationwithin the Ministry of Economy commanded by Sergio Massa.
Bahillo during his participation in the Democracy and Development series organized by Clarín. Photo: Andrés D’Elia.
Bahillo also stressed that “the country needs a greater volume of production, a greater volume of added value and greater integration into the world”.
With regard to the problems that our country and our neighbors are experiencing, he stressed that “other economies of the world have also experienced this” and insisted that “no one has overcome these realities by going without. We must seek more and produce more “.
Bahillo was born in Gilbert, a town of Entre Ríos near Gualeguaychú, 56 years ago. Dedicated to dairy production by family inheritance, the new secretary was national deputy and minister of production in Entre Ríos. He was also mayor of Gualeguaychú between 2007 and 2015.
At the end of his presentation, Bahillo winked at the producers underlining “the cultural values of the agricultural sector“.
Bahillo was one of the participants in the last panel of the day of the Democracy and Development cycle. Photo: Andrés D’elia.
“He knows of work, of resilience, he knows how to overcome adversity and it seems to me that these are the values that we must assume to carry out the public function”, he stressed.
The official remarked that the “indication” he has from Massa and that he shares is to generate “a lot of dialogue and a lot of consensus” with “the different sectors” of the economy.
Manuel Otero: “Policies must be in favor of producers, science and nature”
Veterinary surgeon Manuel Otero, currently director of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA), warned that “policies must be in favor of producers, science and nature“.
“We have to be productive, efficient, sustainable and resilient“, highlighted
The main mission of IICA is to stimulate, promote and support Member States’ efforts to achieve agricultural development and rural welfare through excellent international technical cooperation.
With two masters from foreign institutions, Otero is the author of numerous technical papers on international trade, sectoral policies and the modernization of agriculture, and was also vice president of the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) in Argentina.
Analyzing the current situation, Otero stressed that the world is witnessing “a succession of crises and countries are fatigued“.
“We have two possibilities, either we get carried away by this or we think about what is happening in that international contextOtero said.
Source: Clarin
