Associations of producers of yerba mate and tareferos stated this Monday that they remain in a “state of alert” to defend Resolution 170 of the INYM that determines an ordering of the herb activity and enables all producers to plant up to five new hectares from the next year.
“We had already expressed our support for the INYM in the mobilization that we carried out last month in front of the Institute’s headquarters and now the producers associations of Misiones and Corrientes reiterate that position,” said Nelson Dalholm, of the Chimiray Association, which groups together small producers from the north of Corrientes.
For its part, the Alto Uruguay Civil Association of Producers and Tareferos reiterated its support for the aforementioned measure taken by the INYM “which benefits 97% of small and medium herb growers.” The entity chaired by Antonio França issued a statement in which it warns about “industrial millers who persist in revoking said resolution.”
The alert status of the yerba mate farmers and harvesters arises in response to the administrative and judicial onslaught that the referents of the milling chambers and the government of Corrientes have already begun to develop with the aim of stopping the implementation of the Resolution 170, which comes into force in January 2022. It provides that all producers, regardless of their economic condition, may plant up to five new hectares per year, in addition to incorporating up to 2% of the area with interplantation and replacing specimens dry or dead without limits.
For the leaders of primary production, this measure guarantees the possibility of equitable development for all links in the chain and prevents herbal activity from becoming concentrated in the hands of large companies and capital.
In that sense, Dalholm recalled that a Yerba Table works in Corrientes in which the planting of 5,000 new hectares of yerba mate in that province is encouraged. The last meeting was held on April 29 and Dalholm, representing the small Corrientes producers, left an alternative proposal in the hands of Governor Gustavo Valdés, where they stated that it was not necessary to incorporate new plantations, but to increase the yield of the existing ones. with a program of fertilization and improvement of yerbales owned by small producers. To date, they have not received a response to their initiative.
The producers and tareferos estimate that the rejection of the milling chambers and the Government of Corrientes will not prosper, but, anyway, they anticipated that they are willing to mobilize again. “We are on permanent alert with our producers, not ruling out eminent force measures if necessary,” warned França.
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