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Rising production and expectations for new biofuel legislation mark the end of an encouraging harvest.

Within the framework of the COP16 on Biodiversity held in Colombia, the seminar “Protected Productive Landscape Network (PPP)” was held this Thursday, promoted by the agenda of Redes Chaco and Impacto Verde and led by Fundación ProYungas. The case of two companies with operations in Argentina committed to this issue was presented there: the Ledesma sugar mill and the Arauco forestry company. The PPP program is an initiative that proposes a new management model, which coherently integrates productive and wild areas, and which since 2010 has been gaining support from private companies from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay. Adding these conservation initiatives in the hands of private companies, it currently covers more than 2.6 million hectares of surface area, of which almost 40% are wild areas. Alejandro Brown, president of Fundación ProYungas (PPP Argentina), Rodrigo Ayala, executive director of PROMETA (PPP Bolivia), Ignacio Duelo, the manager of the ProYungas Foundation (PPP Argentina), attended the seminar.

This Monday, at the inauguration of the electricity cogeneration plant of the Tucumán sugar mill La Florida, one of the gossips of the guests linked to the sugar sector of Tucumán, including Governor Osvaldo Jaldo, was the surprising appearance of a few packages of sugar of Brazilian origin in one of the Coto supermarkets in the city of Buenos Aires. Why so much concern? For those who do not remember, sugar is one of the products historically excluded by Argentina from the Mercosur tariff agreement, because Brazil is the largest producer and exporter of this product in the world and by only dumping a small portion of its production in the country it would cause the collapse of the entire sugar industry in the NOA. That is why the zero tariff does not apply here and protective tariffs must be paid that are supposed to make imports prohibitive. Unless, of course, the new government of Javier Milei decides to throw that tariff protection overboard to favor