Overview
- Agriculture officials formally presented a restructuring roadmap to the Mesa de Enlace and opened working tables with a tentative review calendar running to April 2025.
- The plan contemplates merging the current 15 regional centers into four or five macrorregions and reviewing stations and agencies case by case with no automatic closures.
- An official audit identified about 42,000 hectares in disuse, with roughly 33,836 flagged for potential desafectación, though authorities say there are no immediate sales or transfers and a broader land survey will follow.
- A voluntary retirement scheme for INTA staff is being drafted and remains subject to evaluation by the Ministry of Economy.
- Reactions split the sector, with FAA’s Andrea Sarnari warning of administrative centralization, SRA’s Nicolás Pino calling it a non-imposed roadmap, seven former ministers branding it a “real estate deal,” and CRA’s head skipping the meeting over representation issues.