“We’re not going to take anything from this world”: he’s a successful entrepreneur and he tells why he opened a home for addicts

LEANDRO N. ALEM, Misiones.- “From this world we are going with the put, we are not going to take anything,” says Miguel Gartner, one of the most successful farmers in the country, paraphrasing his mother. Gartner is, in all probability, the manufacturer of the product that has the greatest penetration in Argentine homes: the yerba mate. Although it does not produce yerba, it accounts for almost 90% of the packaging market of this product in Arge…

It is a new pillar in a conflict over the price of the green yerba mate leaf, in which after the deregulation of the Yerba Mate National Institute (INYM) and its alight since Javier Milei's assumption in the national government, the producers are strongly affected by the conditions of sale of the goods. Missionary settlers demand improvements in prices, as according to INYM itself, the cost of production of the kilo of green yerba is 355 pesos, …

Missions are in the prelude of a Week of May, but of struggle. Thus, the yerbater producers will again intensify the demand for the payment of a fair price for the production of green leaf, after the negotiations with the mills that buy the raw material produced in the fields failed. It is a new pillar in a conflict for the price of the green leaf of yerba mate, in which after the deregulation of the National Institute of Yerba Mate (INYM) and i…

At an assembly held yesterday in Campo Grande, farmers of the Centro area agreed to make a caravan on May 24 to Posadas, demanding the appointment of a president of the National Institute of Yerba Mate (Inym) and a “fair” price for the raw material. The colonists grouped in the Agrarian Movement of Missions (MAM) and the Association of Agricultural Producers of Missions (Apam), gathered this last Sunday, defined “strategies to follow” and a seri…