The field continues without reaching the meeting with Sergio Massa: “We are anxious to want to have a chat because it is the first step we have to take”

Almost ten days have passed since Saturday 30 July, when the president of the Argentine Rural Society, Nicola Pinohe put together a series of campaign claims to the government that made the public explode with euphoria, who, downstairs, listened to him in the emblematic act performed by the institution in the traditional agricultural and livestock exhibition.

So they remembered him this Tuesday in the corridors of the MALBA (the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires), where the main leaders of agriculture participated, and some governors such as Gustavo Bordet of Entre Ríos and the missionary Oscar Herrera Ahuad the seminar on Democracy and Development organized by Clarin.

“In 20 years we producers have transferred 130,000 million dollars to the state, the equivalent of what we invested in the Marshall Plan when all of Europe had to be helped after the Second World War. What did they do with it? They squandered the money on the distribution of subsidies instead of promoting the culture of work and productivity ”, launched Pino to the public in La Rural. And among other strong phrases he echoed the denunciation of the camp, also present this Tuesday at Malba.

No one from the government was present at the camp opening ceremony that Saturday. But that day Pino’s phone vibrated with a message of good wishes for the act of the new Minister of Economy, Production and Agriculture, Sergio Massa, who would take office four days later.

However, this Tuesday, at the appointment of ClarioneYes, there was a government presence. The Undersecretary of Agriculture was present, Giovanni Giuseppe Bahillo, who stated from the stage that the country must “get out of the sterile dichotomies” that prevent it from “producing more”. It was a direct message to the industry.

Specifically, there is no quote in the field yet. “It’s harder than getting it right with a girl you ask out and she always thinks of you,” he told this newspaper about cultural codes for men that still prevail in much of the sector.

The absence of a date for the meeting between Massa and the pitch centered the comments in the previous chapter of Clarín’s meetings which this Tuesday focused on Agro-industry in development,

The connecting table was full: Pine tree; Jorge Chemes, of the Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA); Carlos Iannizzotto, from Coninagro, rarely present at activities like this and was present today. Carlos Achetoni, from the Argentine Agricultural Federation, also made a gift.

“We agreed it would be this week and they didn’t tell us anything”, one of the leaders said Clarione. “For our part I can tell you we are anxious to want to chat because it is the first step we have to take, ”he added.

Another leader, less confident, indicated his disappointment because Massa “It seems improvised”. He’s an experienced leader, they said, that “I’ve wanted this ministry for a long time and now I can’t get a team together.”

When asked by this newspaper, one of them was unable to answer who is stopping Massa. Whether the president Alberto Fernández or the vice president, Cristina Kirchner. “At this point it’s already the dynamics,” retorted another.

In the corridors there were figures of the best known. There were the CEOs of Clarín but also leaders such as the former Minister of Agro-industry Ricardo Buryaile, now a national deputy. There has been talk of the need for Congress to discuss a new agro-industrial promotion law once and for all. He talked about fertilizers, exchange rate splitting and export duties, one of the most difficult problems with the government today and difficult to solve due to the lack of dollar reserves.

Someone in the group asked what would be the “reasonable” price for the producer to liquidate what he is withholding and this is a reason for comparison with Kirchnerism.

Then with irony someone remembered Pino’s phrase in the act of the Rural. “In the case of soy, the dollar value that producers receive is less than $ 100. PIt seems a lie that a few days ago we were accused of being speculators, the role of speculator is played by the state, “he said. Someone then told Clarín they weren’t asking for 300 but for something closer to 200.

Senator Clara del Valle Vega was posing for an institutional photo when she heard about how “everything was difficult” and how the fact that they announced “measures that cannot be implemented” made things worse.

Figures so dissimilar to the executive director of ANSES, the economist and former deputy, Diego Bossio, seemed a beacon of consultations because his consulting firm Equilibra today produces one of the best reports on the market and on the political and economic situation.

Nearby was consultant Marcelo Elizondo, director of DNI, who stressed the importance of cereals as a tool for profit and power. An instrument that Argentina is not taking advantage of in the context of the war in Ukraine. Jaime Campos, president of the Argentine Business Association (AEA), avoided public statements and said he had not spoken to the new economy minister.

Between coffee, croissants and puddings, the guests talked, the figure of Massa was always at the center. “His guidelines are rational. The question is that I can specify them ”, they sincerely hopeful but skeptical.