Tractorazo of "the other area"

Organizations of small producers, peasants and natives mobilize to expose the critical situation of their production, their economy and their financial situation. They demand that the social agricultural monotributo be reinstated and that the policies for the family farming sector be implemented.

"We are the other field and produce more than 60% of the food consumed by the Argentines Why do not we have access to fundamental rights?", Asks the organizations of small agricultural producers who protest in front of the Ministry of Agri-Food of the Nation

After the vegetables with which they tried to expose their plight, they request an audience with the minister Luis Miguel Etchevehere and that the social agricultural monotributo that the government decided to cancel a few weeks ago be reinstated. In addition, they demand policies that help support the sector, such as differentiated tariffs for light and diesel, subsidized subsidized soft loans and subsidies for inputs used in production

"We warn of dramatic consequences policies of the national government, they make to our sector, policies that do not guarantee the minimum conditions to continue to produce ", affirmed in a communique the organizations which summoned to the march. They denounce that the sector "extinguished" and "impoverishes the peoples of the interior and that the rural territories are extinguished; land and production become foreign and concentrated and consumers pay for more and more expensive food. "

The small producers also argue that the end of the Monotributo Agricultural Social leaves them without social work and without retirement." It was the only tool to regularize the work that the state had for the sector ",

"In this critical situation, which worsens over the months, we find no reaction or measure from the government and the competitiveness tables – which seem to be the only initiative and to which nobody in our sector do convoque – have proved effective to change the situation or adopt policies in the medium and long term, "they say the Union of workers. Earth.

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