The yerba mate producers are set to halt the harvest and control the routes: They say that the latest measures leave them with no choice.

The national government decided to continue deregulating the yerba mate market and removed the few remaining functions of the National Yerba Mate Institute (INYM) to regulate this activity, which did nothing but reignite tensions among the producers. The yerba mate growers are starting a new period of protests. In Misiones, the zafrinha, which is the second harvest of the green leaf, is coming up, of lower volume and quality, but the settlers are already threatening not to carry it out. They also have assemblies planned to outline a plan of action. These episodes occurred months ago and were a reflection of the crisis that the sector fell into following the government's first measures. Javier Milei and his team, since assuming in December 2023, left the presidency of the INYM vacant—a position that must be appointed by the Secretariat of Agriculture—and this prevented the INYM from regulating reference prices for the green leaf, its main function for over twenty years of history. ...