Carlos Achetoni, from the Agricultural Federation: “If we accept a dollar of soy, we will condemn the country against each other”

The meeting was attended by Carlos Achetoni, head of the Argentine Agricultural Federation Democracy and development organized by Grupo Clarín, in the first table, entitled “Agricultural products and their value chains”

“If we accept a dollar of soy, we are certainly validating the 340 pesos dollar. And what we need is not a dollar of soybeans, it is a dollar that reduces the exchange gap and approaches all the possibilities of the country, otherwise we will condemn one against the other, “he said.

In this way, the agrarian chief questioned the government’s measure to encourage the agricultural sector to liquidate the harvest.

In late July, the Board of Directors of the Central Bank approved a new tool for agricultural producers who sell their soybean crop. This is a special quotation to encourage the liquidation which would stand at the values ​​of this Tuesday around 162.70 dollars.

“It doesn’t work for us. We’re putting together $ 240 and if we subtract the uncertainty of these last 20, 30 days, we’re putting together those $ 240,” Achetoni added.

At the same time, he asked to generate “trust” and “joint work” and not “a Frankenstein of dollars”, which generates distortions in the producers’ market.

Achetoni was together with the leaders of the so-called Complete Liaison Table: Nicolás Pino, of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA); Jorge Chemes, of the Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA); Carlos Iannizzotto, from Coninagro.

The debate revolved around how to increase these exports and continue to add value to them. And how to promote other items, such as wine, fruit or finished foods.

“What we need is not a regulatory state, it is a state with a virtuous participation that accompanies the financing with taxes, working conditions and consequently with economic stability, which gives the possibility and predictability of being able to grow while Argentina is waiting, “said Achetoni.

“Unfortunately we can’t understand what the halfling looks like”

María Beatriz “Pilu” Giraudo is an agricultural engineer, comes from a family of rural producers in the province of Santa Fe, she was the first woman to hold the presidency of Aapresid (Argentina Association of Direct Sowing Producers), she is a former coordinator of Policies for Sustainable Development at the Ministry of Agro-industry of the Nation, and is currently a member of the Rural Women network.

The agrarian leader talked about the challenges facing producers, faced by the serious problems of today’s world, from the pandemic to the war.

“What do consumers ask of us? That we produce more and more not only quantity, but quality, for a world that improves its purchasing power and wants to improve its nutrition, that we do it with less water, fewer resources, less environmental footprint, that we get rid of non- fossil renewable energy sources and that we have tremendous resilience to climate change and that we could add to market volatility and unforeseen events such as the pandemic or the Russian invasion of Ukraine, “he said.

In this sense, he argued that Argentina anticipated these requests with “experience”, with the “technological and institutional revolution”.

“Argentina is a select country with conditionsnatural resources, scientific-technological platform, professional talents, knowledge, this ability and conviction for innovation, for the exchange between peers is another treasure that we naturally experience but it is not so in other parts of the world “, he stressed.

But he warned that these conditions are also “under control” at the moment, due to the lack of a strategy in the country and which transcends governments themselves.

“Unfortunately we cannot understand the appearance of the vehiclein the long term, that this territory has and today I would say that even in the production of commodities we have large gaps that we reach due to the uncertainty and permanent changes that occur in our country “, complained” Pilu “Giraudo.

In addition to the agricultural chief, Mario Ravettino, of Frigoríficos ABC, exhibited at the same table for the meat supply chain; for soy, Luis Zubizarreta, of AcSoja and CARBIO; for corn, Pedro Vigneau, from Maizar.