Just a few days after the Federal Justice ratified an injunction that returns all of its powers to the National Institute of Yerba Mate (INYM),
Jonás Petterson
, who had served as president since the end of last year, resigned from his position. The yerba producer had been temporarily in charge of the Institute because the Government of Javier Milei had not yet appointed the new president of the board of directors.
The producer from Andresito decided to step aside due to the lack of support from the board of directors in decision-making. Through his social networks, Petterson highlighted that “above any interest is the integrity and functionality of the National Yerba Mate Institute, which I ratify in its origin,” which is why “today I have made the decision to renounce the function that the Board of Directors has assigned to me, a function that I exercised with great honor.”
“I thank those who have accompanied this path and I will continue working and contributing in everything within my power to improve the herbal activity, as I have always done, especially for the production sector,” he said on Instagram.
Petterson announced his decision at Thursday's board meeting. Institute sources said that
he had grown tired of the obstacles that some links in the production chain placed on his initiatives
. “The INYM is still waiting for the appointment of the president by the Nation, but in all this time there was a strong campaign of discredit, of attacks,” they explained within the INYM as soon as the leader left his position. Unable to get the Institute out of stagnation, Petterson chose to resign and another representative of the primary producers, Nelson Dalcolmo, took his place.
One of the points of greatest conflict that Petterson had to deal with was
the lack of agreement on a possible request for an award to the Ministry of Agriculture
(now Bioeconomy) due to the failure of the directors of Corrientes and the Industry to attend the price sessions. of February and March. The now former president endorsed the position of sending the information to the Nation and used as an argument the statements of the Secretary of Industry and Productive Development of the Nation, Juan Alberto Pazo, who was in Posadas in February and said that the deregulation of the yerbatero market had just been implemented. would become effective when the DNU regulatory decree was published. That initiative did not prosper either.
Petterson's slamming of the door occurred just three days after the resolution of the Federal Court of Appeals of Posadas was announced, which ratified an injunction that put a brake on the National Government's deregulatory advance on the herbal market.
The protection had been promoted by a group of producers and the argument was that the Institute would lose its financing and with it the resources that it partly used for health coverage of small producers.
The ratification of the amparo
returned all powers to the INYM
, including that of setting reference prices for green leaf and yerba mate. And these powers will remain until there is a final ruling from the Court on the merits of the matter.
The coarse harvest season began ten days ago and for the first time in more than two decades there is no reference price. The dryers are paying an average of 370 pesos per kilo of ironed green leaves, but the producers maintain that some profitability is only achieved with a value greater than 500 pesos.