In Paraguay, producers also pay half of what they need to cover their costs for yerba mate.

In Paraguay, in the same native region of yerba mate, the crisis situation is very similar to what is happening in Argentina, although there they cannot blame only the deregulation of prices that has always existed. Lisandro Benítez, a yerba mate producer from the department of Itapúa (in front of Misiones) warned of the great concern that exists about the low prices of his crop. He explained that today prices are offered almost the same as those of August of last year. And he announced that in view of the situation they are preparing a large protest mobilization in his country. “Here too, for our yerba mate they offer us about 200 pesos (1200 guaraníes) in the drying room and on March 10 we are going to have a meeting in Asunción with deputies from various commissions to try to find a solution to this problem. Here, small producers are worried because the yerba mate now has a lot of seeds this year. According to the drying plants, they wanted to start the harvest on March 3, but ...