The yerba crisis is advancing: The historic cooperative La Hoja has accumulated rejected checks for more than 1,200 million pesos and h

The yerba mate crisis is no longer just expressed in heated assemblies, roadblocks, or statements from desperate producers. It is now beginning to be felt in an even more delicate place: the cooperatives. And when that framework begins to crack, what is exposed is not an isolated company, but dozens or hundreds of families who live off a crop that cannot be abandoned overnight. In recent hours, it was learned that the La Hoja cooperative, one of the historic cooperatives in the Misiones yerba sector, has accumulated more than 1.2 billion pesos in rejected checks. A cold number that, behind it, hides a broken chain of payments, producers who have not been paid, and other smaller cooperatives dragged into the same whirlwind. This morning, Bichos de Campo reported on what is happening with the Km. 16 Cooperative, which also saw its chain of payments to suppliers, who are mostly producers, affected. According to Pato Koch, who spoke to this medium, "the bomb exploded 60 days ago with ...