Tag: Luis Etchevehere

• Wednesday, April 24th 2019 - 11:36 UTC

  Argentina trying to sell its soy bumper crop to China

  

  Argentina is pushing to increase agricultural trade with commodities-hungry China, as farmers on the country’s Pampas grains belt prepare for what is expected to be a bumper soybean harvest over the weeks ahead.

• Friday, November 9th 2018 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentina expects a record harvest of 140 million tons of grain and oilseeds

  

  Argentina is expected to harvest some 140 million tons of grain in the 2018/2019 season, the largest crop in the country's history, according to Argentina's Agriculture Secretariat.

• Monday, August 3rd 2015 - 09:29 UTC

  Argentine farmers at Palermo show opening: “please don't vote for 'populist adventures'”

  

  Argentine farmers have taken sides decisively ahead of events leading to the presidential election in October and the primaries next weekend. At the opening of the country's major Palermo agriculture show in Buenos Aires, the head of the Argentine Rural Society Luis Etchevehere called on his fellow citizens to avoid supporting “democratically elected leaders but intoxicated with authoritarianism” and “populist adventures”.

• Friday, March 6th 2015 - 08:48 UTC

  Argentine farmers and government clash over next week's three day walkout

  

  Argentine farmer organizations lashed back at Agriculture minister Carlos Casaquimela who questioned a three-day strike announced for next week to protest government policies, and which he described as 'unjustifiable'.

• Monday, July 28th 2014 - 07:56 UTC

  Argentine farmers and government again clash over the 'preyed-upon decade”

  

  Argentine Agriculture Minister Carlos Casamiquela and Federal Planning chief Julio De Vido rebuffed the criticism of the head of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA), Luis Etchevehere, who at the opening of the Palermo livestock show accused the government of President Cristina Fernandez of being “ignorant and arrogant”.