/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/XNCNVQVM6RCCFIX3LWPCCHRS3E.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1 "Silobag breakage: agricultural entities report that 5,700 tons have already been damaged")
Rural crime has registered a significant increase in recent times. A situation that had been alerting from the Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA), an entity that makes up the Liaison Table, since the problem affects the 16 Confederations that make it up throughout the country. One of the crimes that is presenting the most notoriety is the breaking of silobags in the provinces of central Argentina.
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CRA members made a map that reflects the different criminal acts that are suffered in each province. “With great pain, we have to count two murders of producers, in Misiones and Tucumán,” they said from the entity.
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And they added: “We extend our solidarity to all those producers who have seen their work disappear in the hands of criminals. And without an emphatic condemnation by the ruling party of such barbarism, it is not possible to imagine either the clarification of the events that occurred or the end of such tremendous criminal action ”.
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So far this year, the rural insecurity that producers suffer daily is demonstrated in the following crimes: murders, silobag breakage, intentional fires, theft of machinery, harvest, agrochemicals, cattle rustling and the usurpation of fields were recorded. “Agricultural producers are also citizens deserving of all the rights enshrined in our National Constitution and security is one of them,” said CRA leaders.
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To cite some examples, in Mendoza they stole the harvest of 8,000 kilos of garlic from a producer. In approximately 60 cases, to date, of silobag breaks, according to the information provided by the CRA Economic Department, it is estimated that a total of 5,700 tons have been damaged. In addition, in each attempt to recover the grain, 15% of it is lost, added to the fact that around 870 tons remain without being able to collect it again.
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As reported by this medium, yesterday afternoon, the president of the Rural Society of Río Cuarto, David Tonello, reported a fire at his establishment located in Charras, department of Juárez Celman. It is investigated whether it was intentional or not.
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It must be remembered that less than a month ago, the vice president of Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA), Gabriel from Raedemaeker, He had also suffered an incident in his field in Oliva, which he described as a “gangster message”, since he defined it as “intentional”.
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In addition, there are attacks on private property that have generated great concern throughout the agro-industrial world.
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In this situation, the members of the Rural Society of Jesús María expressed their solidarity with the president of the rural Río Cuarto and asked the police authorities to clarify the fact as soon as possible.
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The acts of vandalism and sabotage in private fields, with the theft of cattle, cattle rustling and the breaking of silobags, have taken public status and generated not only the repudiation and concern of the agro-industrial sector and sectors of the opposition, but also of the citizenry which is not necessarily linked to the activity.
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So, Gaston Marra, an employee from the Buenos Aires town of Pehuajó, promoted a request that already has 18,500 signatures through the platform change.org, so that the national government and the provincial states repudiate vandalism on rural private property and that they take measures to combat the problem.
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“We ask that the Ministry of Agriculture and also the Ministry of Security disclose a clear policy that helps the judiciary to investigate and find those responsible for this systematic violation of private property,” said Marra, and added that “the government has to take concrete measures to begin to clarify these acts of sabotage and vandalism, implement preventive measures and transmit the political message that these crimes must end because they end up harming all of us Argentines.”
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