Uruguayan agriculture spares no criticism against the government: public spending, meatpacking plants, and the price of diesel fuel are at the forefront.

The president of the Rural Association of Uruguay (ARU), Rafael Ferber, took advantage of his closing speech at the Expo Prado to target various factors that, according to the sector, particularly affect agriculture: the damages to competitiveness were the main and most varied, and there were no shortage of criticisms towards the government. Although the parties maintain that there is a good dialogue between the government and the rural unions, Ferber did not hesitate to question a long list of aspects of the current situation, some of them already structural and transversal to national administrations, but others resulting from decisions of the current management. In this sense, competitiveness was the central axis or common thread among the different points made by the president of the ARU, who pointed to the restrictive policies that further harm the already battered countryside due to the disadvantage in the foreign market. The article of the Budget bill on natural farmland ...