The Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Fernando Vilella, appointed agronomist
Daniel Notta
to head the National Institute of Yerba Mate (INYM), who already held that position in 2002, when the institute was put into operation.
Notta is a herbal producer with more than 35 years in the activity in Misiones, according to the statement from the Secretariat.
The National Yerba Mate Institute began to take shape in 2001, in the midst of a deep crisis that affected the primary yerba mate sector after the dissolution of the Yerba Mate Regulatory Commission (CRYM) and the National Consignee Market of Yerba Mate Canchada, according to the INYM site.
He also recalled that the situation that year "led to a great mobilization, known as "el tractorazo", which brought together producers, representatives of the cooperative sector and rural workers for several days in the Plaza 9 de Julio, in the city of Posadas, capital of the province of Misiones, and which triggered the support of the provincial government and national authorities in the search for palliatives.
The "response to this claim led by the producers finally arrived on February 21, 2002, with the sanction by the National Congress of Law 25,564 that created the National Institute of Yerba Mate," quotes the Institute's official site. .
The INYM Board of Directors is made up of 12 members representative of the entire chain and the Governments.
The head of the directory is appointed by the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, an office that in this management is called the Secretariat of Bioeconomy.
With information from Télam