Producers from Misiones carried out a demonstration to demand a recomposition of the value that the industry pays for the herb. About a hundred tractors gathered very early on National Route 14 and then marched through the main avenues in a noisy caravan.
The farmers maintain that the 240 pesos that the dryers are paying do not cover their numbers after the sharp increase in fuel and the inflationary jump that generated the devaluation last December. The yerba mate sector is going through difficult times after the National Government removed from the National Institute of Yerba Mate (INYM) the power to set reference values.