With a "tractorazo", small producers protested for the elimination of Monotributo Social Agricole

July 26, 2018 – 19:09
A group of small rural producers today made a "tractorazo" in front of the Ministry of Agribusiness headquarters in demand for policies to boost the sector and demand that the social agricultural monotributo not be eliminated.

A group of small rural producers today performed a "tractorazo" in front of the Ministry of Agri-Food's headquarters at the request of policies to stimulate the sector and demand that the Social Agricultural Monotributo not be eliminated.
The protest was conducted on Paseo Colón Avenue between the United States and Carlos Calvo, where Luis Etchevehere's portfolio is located.

Rural dwellers concentrated on Parque Lezama, where, with signs and a tractor that paved the way on Paseo Colon Ave.

The producers are part of the Agrarian Federation Argentina (FAA), the Union Trabajadores de la Terra (UTT), the National Front of Farmers and the Grito de Alcorta Agrupación, and have requested the hearing from Minister Etchevehere

"We warn against the dramatic consequences of the policies of the national government, which do not guarantee the minimum conditions to follow to produce our sector is extinct and with us, the villages of the interior are impoverished and rural territories are extinct, land and production become foreign and concentrated and consumers pay more and more for food ", warn protestors

Producers also demand differentiated tariffs for electricity and diesel , subsidized soft loans, subsidies on inputs used in the production and implementation of the Social Emergency Act.

"The national government has spent more than two years defining policies that benefit family farming. In the last time, he decided to remove the most basic rights: he froze Monotributo Social Agricole and announced that he would eliminate it, "warned the UTT

adding that "That is equivalent to leaving more than 100,000 people without access to health. The retirement system at 50,000 "and ruled that" the same who produces more than 60% of the food that arrives at Argentine tables. "
" We are producers and we want to continue to be, that our children can grow up with dignity ", considered as the entity that brings together small farmers.