CFK 'is committed to helping the farming sector grow,' Garetto assures

After meeting with President Cristina Fernández de Kircher, Coninagro leader Carlos Garetto assured that the President “remains committed to helping the farming sector,” and said that he considered the conflict sparked between her Government and the rural organizations after Resolution 125 “to be over.”

“Nothing good came from it, neither for the Government nor the farmers,” he assured. 

“We’ve exchanged ideas, projects and concerns. The meeting was very positive. We’ve had a very complicated relationship for the last four years,” he said after meeting for lunch with the President and Agriculture Minister Julián Domínguez at the Coninagro offices.

“We have to discuss our perspectives for the future through dialogue,” he said when he addressed the current state of the relationship between the Government and the farming sector. 

During the meeting, Garetto said they discussed the ban on wheat grain trade, the creation of more jobs in the farming sector, the Land Ownership Law and the current situation of producers around the country.

Garetto also revealed that the President “recalled the times of the Resolution 125, a conflicto that helped neither the government nor us. We don’t want to go down the road of confrontation.” 

When asked about a possible conflict with the other farming organizations that are a part of the Liaison Table, he stated that “the Table remains because despite its beginnings it now has a shared history and common concerns.”

“Our goal is articulating the state with the farming sector. The world is in need of food and exporting labor is dignifying, and that is the best way of distributing wealth,” he concluded.