Expoagro: optimism and demand for retention of the main production chains – 03/12/2019

Representatives of major grain chains have agreed that this crop is a record, that the climate accompanies it, that the world is filled with opportunities and that they see a lot of future between producers who sow with expectations and harvests with realities.

It was precisely a way of saying to this Expoagro that they sowed without retention and reaped with this export tax. Retentions and lack of a law on seeds, which prevents progress thanks to new technological contributions, have become the claim of Luis Zubizarreta of the Sunflower soybean chain Guillermo Pozzi; David Hughes, Wheat and Alberto Morelli Corn.

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Their complaints start from a show in which optimism contrasts with the rest of the industrial sectors. In addition, they were very confident that by 2020, withholding taxes would be canceled, as promised by Casa Rosada.

–Clarin asked Hughes in this election year that creates uncertainty, producers will liquidate the beans.

– The financial part is complicated, the cost of saving grain with these rates is very high. It is very likely that they will wind up, but they will sell according to their needs.

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They also proposed a solution to the tariff differential allowing the industrialization of soybeans. "A chain without industry is weak and for the producer, there is nothing better than a strong industry, it is necessary to generate work and for that, it is necessary to industrialize. If you add value, there will be more development, "Zubizarreta said.

Another victim of the lack of differential, as he was badured, is the pisingallo corn, which is becoming the popular pochoclo, which adds value and in which Argentina is the world's leading exporter to hypercompetitive markets such as the United States. Pay duties of 4 pesos per dollar instead of 3, like other industrialized products. "Politics does not go hand in hand with the speed of business," Said Morelli.

It is Hughes' turn to refer to the dilemma posed by the drought-resistant gene in the case of wheat. This gene, obtained by an Argentine company in what is considered a world monument, has not been approved by the Argentine authorities. Hughes said "we need to look at demand in a highly competitive global market before we go forward.

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The big news is that everything They are banking on the enlargement of the agricultural frontier. The sunflower in the west, which is more arid, favors the drought resistance of oilseeds. And in the case of corn, to Misiones for the purpose of exporting more to Brazil whose state of Santa Catarina buys about 4 million tons of grain a year.

Will this campaign be renewed in 2020, Rodolfo Rossi, one of the world's leading soy experts, was asked.

-When the harvest is so good, the producer bets that it will be the same thing. This is part of his DNA and he will have a piece of capital left to face the next harvest. The sector is very optimistic about its own activities.

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