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By Álvaro Rosales, Unitel:

After Meeting with the Government, Agricultural Sector Accepts Repeal of Law 1720 and Announces a New Regulation

Leaders of Confeagro stated that the sector will not renounce its demands or legal certainty, while contemplating a new regulation within 60 days.

[Watch video] / Klaus Frerking, top executive of the National Agricultural Confederation, spoke after the meeting with the Government

Following a meeting with government authorities held this Tuesday, the top executive of the National Agricultural Confederation (Confeagro), Klaus Frerking, announced that a new regulation is being outlined within a 60-day period to replace Law 1720 on land conversion.

“We have reached an agreement with the president of the Senate (Diego Ávila): the departmental agricultural commissions will begin building consensus in each department so that within 60 days we will have a new law for the conversion of small producers into medium-sized producers,” the executive said in remarks to the media in La Paz.

The report comes amid a context in which the Senate has scheduled for this Tuesday the discussion of the bill that contemplates the repeal of the land conversion law.

Frerking specified that the agricultural sector will not give up its demands, nor legal certainty and the pursuit of productivity, stressing that they will not allow producers to be used through extreme measures.

Road blockades cannot continue under an excuse; they are completely political. We, the country’s agricultural producers, will not allow ourselves to be used politically through the blockades,” Frerking added.

Meanwhile, different sectors, mainly peasant groups, remain on alert awaiting the repeal of the regulation.

According to Frerking, representatives from different agricultural sectors participated in the meeting, as well as Senate President Diego Ávila and members of the cabinet.

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