Argentina: Private sector, including supposed beneficiaries, rejected the trust to subsidize wheat and corn for mills and poultry

Uncouple me from this unthinkable resistance. If Roberto Feletti, the Secretary of Internal Commerce, believed that at some point that his idea of creating a trust to subsidize wheat and corn for mills and poultry with money from exporters and producers (who were finally going to suffer the discount), thus “decoupling” domestic prices even more, since the entire private sector closed ranks to say no, that the initiative was not good and that it better look for another formula. If Julián Domínguez, the Minister of Agriculture, thought at some point that with this idea of a compensating trust he would be able to generate more noise and divisions within the Argentine Agrifood Council (CAA) and further isolate the leaders of the Liaison Table of the rest of the sector, as this did not happen either. At least for now, the Intersectoral Corn and Wheat Tables resolved to show unity and also kicked the ball for the government side. If this compensatory fund advances, it will be the sole ...