The president of Prograno, Francisco Vidal, celebrates the reduction in withholdings but clarifies that it does not resolve the lack of competitiveness.

A few days ago the government resolved new values for the famous withholdings. For soybeans they went from 26% to 24% and for wheat and barley they dropped from 9.5% to 7.5%. In the case of corn and sorghum they went from 9.5% to 8.5%, and for sunflower from 5.5% to 4.5%. Faced with the mess that was in September the implementation of a temporary reduction to 0%, which seems to have benefited a few exporters, this time the producers have shown greater approval with the latest decrease, even if it is just a few points. But does this reduction change the productive landscape? Formed in 2002, Prograno is an association that represents agricultural producers of the NOA, especially in Salta. Its president is Francisco José Vidal, who runs his production in Las Maravillas, (Tartagal) and Embarcación, balancing between "specialty" crops, such as beans in their different variants, and commodities like soybeans and corn. In addition, their group has a processing plant in Pichanal and they ...