Vilella received representatives from the Inter-American Development Bank to analyze investment projects
During the meeting they analyzed both current projects and the 2024 agenda.
The Secretary of Bioeconomy, Fernando Vilella, received today the representative in Argentina of the Inter-American Development Bank, Agustín Aguerre; to the entity's Rural Development specialist, Bruno Jacquet, and to the General Manager of the Southern Cone Countries Department at the IDB, Florencia Attademo, to analyze current projects and the project agenda for 2024.
"I can assure you that we are going to execute 100% of the projects we evaluate, from day one, because we seek to build trust," the Secretary told the IDB representatives.
"Our objective is to double exports, for which our productive matrix must be reformulated.
From the Secretariat, we understand the bioeconomy as a territorial and federal development project that generates added value through biomass.
Continuing to produce a lot of biomass, but transforming it at source generates great possibilities in our country.
At the same time, it turns out to be friendly to the environment since it considerably reduces the carbon footprint, with Argentina being a leader in this matter," and also added the need to promote a law to encourage investments that includes all productive sectors, within the framework of a reform of the State.
Likewise, he announced: "This change that we propose will imply more international agreements, more markets, technological sustainability in accordance, in short, a transformation of the rules of the game. Soon the regulations of the external market will disappear and we are accommodating the exchange gap."
Along these lines, Undersecretary Agustín Tejeda highlighted: "We are thinking about a change with respect to the historical vision of the agricultural sector, which takes science and technology as pillars."
For its part, the international financial entity made available not only the financing but also the technical assistance necessary to develop a thematic agenda in the territory.
In this sense Vilella pointed out:
"One of Argentina's challenges is to be able to generate an educational reconversion, today we have a great deterioration in this matter and it will take more than a decade to rebuild it, but it is important to generate training strategies for our human resources to be able to keep up. of the transformation we need".
In this sense, they elaborated on the three large loans that have been approved, which include: one under the administration of the National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP); another for the second phase of the Support Program for Small Wine Producers of Argentina (PROVIAR) and finally through the Provincial Agricultural Services Program (PROSAP) essentially related to irrigation infrastructure.
In turn, they left the project agenda open to be analyzed with Undersecretary Tejeda ahead of a next meeting scheduled for January 2024.
