Rural representatives from Bariloche, General Conesa, Choele Choel, Río Colorado, Guardia Miter, Alto Valle, Viedma and San Antonio Oeste were present.
Understanding that this would represent a strong setback of many years of work that allowed us to have an surpassing health status in the province, the Provincial President and the leaders of the sector united in a single voice to reject the possibility of eliminating the health barrier and allowing entry of meat on the bone and live animals to Patagonia.
This directly attacks Patagonian health statuses, which are related to livestock, but also to fruit and horticulture.
From the provincial State it was confirmed that Governor Weretilneck will hold meetings next week with the rest of the Patagonian governors to work on a better instance. The majority objective will be to be able to integrate the rest of the country into our region, with the appropriate health status and with the possibility of increasing markets.
In this regard, Minister Banacloy expressed that the possibility of modifying the health barrier “is a very important setback, knowing that we would lose a lot of markets, we would lose the growth of Patagonia’s positioning as a differential market,” and added that “Patagonia “It has a differential health status that allowed the growth and development of a large part of our production processes.”
“The proposal that I think we have to bring to the National Government is that it understands that we must unify a sanitary status that is superior, not one that means a setback and that is detrimental to all Patagonians.”
For his part, the president of the Bariloche Rural Society and vice president of the Río Negro Rural Federation, Leandro Ballerini, described this possible closure of the barrier as “a setback for many years of work and losses. We are worried about everything it would generate, for wanting to install this on behalf of other provinces and a refrigeration sector, as a purely and purely commercial issue; and throw away many years of work. And it is not just Patagonia, but it is a problem for the entire country.”
