De Mendiguren assured that the closure of corn exports "is an emergency because Argentina exports what we eat"

Published 2021년 1월 6일

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Argentine politician José Ignacio De Mendiguren has criticized the country's current agricultural export practices, arguing that it leads to poverty and is not sustainable. He suggested that instead of bulk exporting wheat, corn, and soybeans, these crops should be value-added and exported as flour, pasta, and cookies. This would significantly increase the price per ton, he explained. De Mendiguren also emphasized the need for the government to prioritize the supply of these crops for domestic consumption before exporting them.

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José Ignacio De Mendiguren spoke on Wednesday about the cessation of commercialization that the Rural Society, FAA and CRA will carry out and assured that for Argentina the ideal "would be that it should not be exported in bulk." "The wheat we export is exported in bulk and that means $ 200 per ton. When you export it in flour, you go to 400 dollars a ton. And if you export it in pasta and cookies, transformed that wheat, it is 1,800 dollars a ton. The same thing happens with corn, with soybeans. Today it is a lie that Argentina feeds the humans of the world. Today we export animal feed from the world, "De Mendiguren said in statements to radio AM 750. For the president of BICE, this scenario" leads us to poverty "and to solve it," the ideal plan would be for corn not to be exported in bulk. , so that later the animals or products fed with our raw material are sold to us ”. “International prices skyrocketed and we went to the emergency. Everyone understands that if I sell the corn ...

Source: ARInfocampo