Yerbateros carried out a tractor race for deregulation of the market

The farmers of Misiones organized mobilizations and assemblies in different parts of the province to claim for a fair price of the raw material, as well as for the restitution of the functions that the National Institute of Yerba Mate (INYM) knew to have. They even carried out a new tractor in the town of San José, to the limit with the province of Corrientes. They also demand better prices per kilo of green leaf that they deliver to the dryers.…

This Tuesday the first big tractor race and mobilization of small farmers of this province in demand for a “fair price” of the green leaf, which today is paid at about 200 pesos and does not cover the costs, according to them. Since yesterday some 70 tractors arrived from such distant points as Andresito, San Pedro, Jardín América, Oberá and other places of the red earth. The producers camped in the strategic roundabout of the intersection of Na…

After the “tractorazo” carried out yesterday in the town of San José, yerbatero producers from different points of the province, they met again this morning in that same town and decided to march with tractors, trucks and vans towards the post of the Tax Office Misiones, on national route 14, before the Sentinela crossing, on the border with Corrientes. The measure is framed in the claim of a better price for the green leaf, whose payment is loc…