They are shooting for the price of yerba mate: A basic guide to understanding the conflict

Published 2020년 7월 8일

Tridge summary

Argentine Minister of Productive Development, Matías Kulfas, is under investigation for allegedly suggesting a decrease in the price paid to yerba mate producers, a move that no previous official, including Guillermo Moreno, has dared to propose due to Argentina's high inflation. The decision on producer prices is made every six months by the National Yerba Mate Institute, with involvement from various chain actors, and currently, the prices are being maintained until August 30. The investigation stems from concerns about the sudden increase in wholesale yerba mate prices, which have led to difficulties in maintaining the consumer prices set during the quarantine.
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Original content

Guillermo Moreno, in his time of splendor, was a specialist in freezing the prices of certain foods for popular consumption, and yerba mate was one of them. When his "maximum prices" could not hold any more, which was frequent in a country with high inflation, Moreno used to fight with the producers of the infusion and even called some of them as "Polish dirty leg". But that was as far as it went. Moreno never dared to demand a lower producer price. Matías Kulfas, the Minister of Productive Development and the head of Paula Español, the current Secretary of Internal Trade, appears this Friday in many newspaper reports talking about the price of yerba. Sources linked to herbal production accuse him of having claimed a reduction in the prices paid to the producer. As we said, not even Moreno at his best was so encouraged. The only verifiable data is that Kulfas had a videoconference with Governor Oscar Herrera Ahuad, in which the price of yerba was effectively discussed. But ...

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