La Rural asked that the fiscal adjustment "not hurt" the campaign

Amid the government's plans to reduce the deficit of the accounts of l & # 39; State, the president of the Sociedad Rural Argentina (SRA), Daniel Pelegrina, affirmed that the search for a balanced budget does not harm the production. The demand comes in the context of the various rumors, denied by the same president Mauricio Macri, of a possible brake to the reduction of soya retentions, today with a rate of 26.5%.

the leader in the inaugural act of the Rural Exhibition of Palermo, which led, by Macri's trip to South Africa, Vice President Gabriela Michetti. In addition to the Vice President, Chief of Staff, Marcos Peña, Minister of Food, Luis Miguel Etchevehere, Minister of Transport, Guillermo Dietrich, and Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, were in the official box. In the box there were also representatives of other sectors of the economy, such as Adelmo Gabbi (Stock Exchange), Jorge Di Fiori (Chamber of Commerce), Gustavo Weiss (House of Construction) and Gustavo Idígoras ( Chamber of Grain Exporters). In the box were also the G20 Agriculture Ministers who are deliberating in Buenos Aires and took a picture with Michetti.

In a speech of nearly 20 minutes, Pelegrina also claimed by the current tax pressure in the various national, provincial and municipal government agencies. On the other hand, said that with the current level of interest rates "nobody can invest."

"Balancing the budget must be achieved by increasing production and not harming it with increasingly abusive public privileges at all levels of government," said the president of Rural. , the leader asked that the Nation, the provinces and the municipalities "each" make their adjustment. "An adjustment on the unproductive expenditures of the State, and not on the social component of it", he said.

Pelegrina also complained of "Property tax out of sync with what we produce in our land", "municipal taxes they are charged for services that are not even provided" and also stressed the mayors for fees "for services that do not even lend. "

The president of the entity, applauded in several sections of the booth speech, He supported the gestures when he wanted to emphasize something, as when he was talking about tax pressure, that he considered "suffocating." Pelegrina was responsible for the Rural after the departure of Luis Miguel Etchevehere as Minister of Agroindustry. "Today was received as president," a source badessed after his speech.

"The tax burden is stifling and is the result of an unbearable size of state that is not adequate to the economic and productive reality. "Pelegrina also made a gesture to the government emphasizing that it" honors "the commitment that it has taken on the ground, among other measures with the removal of barriers to export and export. simplification of procedures

"He is committed to eliminating and reducing unjust retentions and to honoring this commitment with facts, giving us the clearest and most necessary signal: if we sow with certain rules of the game, we will reap with the same rules. "

Similarly, he warned that producers, who this year will invest 12 billion US dollars in the next plantation," we have already started "so that they do not stop us"

Although the improvement in the exchange rate has favored some agricultural activities, there are others such as the dairy, with more than 80% of its dollarized inputs, with difficulties.In this regard, Pelegrina said "The dairy has enormous potential, it must find its way and meet the challenge of export growth and for that it is imperative to generate transparency and competitiveness throughout the chain.

After the words of Pelegrina, vice president Michetti, the first woman to officially open the exhibition in 132 years of exposure recognized the problems of the dairy.

"We know the difficulties of the dairy. "He then asked the producers do not doubt the government's goal: "We will find the solutions the country needs." He received applause for these words, but not generalized.

Michetti said that the president himself had asked him to send the following message to the camp. "Continue to cultivate trust, we are on the right track, when the field grows, Argentina grows up."

The Vice President pointed out that after the drought, now the field "is moving forward with another record sowing", with reference to wheat.

"When the field is removed from his foot, he immediately shows what he is capable of doing," he said. In another section, he added: "In hard times for many, you can, of course, you can, show it."

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