Argentina proposes new legislation to develop local biological inputs industry

By Leonardo Gottems, reporter for AgroPages

The national deputy, Eber Pérez Plaza, representing the Argentinian city of Mendoza, presented new legislation to develop the local biological inputs industry.

The project aims to “value regional economies” and “seek sustainable alternatives for production.”

“Following this initiative to provide sustainability to production, I and my work team and advisers proposed a project,” Pérez Plaza explained. The proposal seeks to “establish a regulatory framework to promote the bio-inputs from the national industry,” he added.

“This achieves two main objectives: Firstly. to put sustainable, healthy food on the table of each Argentinian, and secondly, make the productive sector profitable, while understanding that we need to provide agriculture with a tool that can accompany and transform some more to improve your profitability in the sector,” he explained.

According to the national deputy, “Profitability can be achieved if we want there to be alternatives. Precisely, this project seeks to provide another alternative to the productive sector and develop the industry.” For all this to happen, there must be a regulatory framework, Pérez Plaza added.

“We are putting together a registry of bio-inputs, to provide it with a regulatory framework, and hope the activity can be legalized and begin to work accordingly,” he said. Also, there is another project which is seeking to promote and disseminate these products as well as the concept of agro-ecological production.

Although they consider it very important to promote all this for sustainability and ensure healthy food, the truth is that the price of agrochemicals is very high because it is in American dollars, which is overvalued against the Argentine Peso.

“At the same time, this type of production could generate more sources of work in the country, something that becomes more necessary every day,” Pérez Plaza said in conclusion.