The Government will open for the first time an Agricultural Attaché Office in the Republic of India, as reported this Friday (05.07.2019/XNUMX/XNUMX) through the Decree No. 463/2019. According to the regulations, published in the Official Gazette, the measure aims to deepen the commercial relationship with this market of 1.400 billion inhabitants, one of the largest on the planet, which is why it was designated Mariano Beheran as Specialized Attaché in the Agroindustrial Area in that country.
The Secretary of the Government for Agroindustry of the Nation, Luis Miguel Etchevehere, stressed the importance of having an agricultural attaché in function of "the potential that the relationship between the two countries has, and especially the commercial and cooperation opportunities in the national agroindustrial sector to complement that economy. Our country has all the potential to become a reliable supplier in quantity and quality of food to that destination."
This is the sixth agricultural attaché office of our country in the world. y It is a central axis of the policy of opening markets and international insertion of President Macri's government.
In recent years, Argentina and India have increased their international relations in an attempt to increase and diversify the exchange of agro-industrial products. In this area, India, one of the most populated countries in the world, imports more than 38.000 billion dollars (according to data from COMTRADE and INDEC).
Argentina is India's 7th largest food supplier, and last year it exported 1.454 billion dollars, which accounted for 93% of total sales. Soybean oil is the most exported product with 92%.
With the new Office of the Special Advocate, Argentina will seek to achieve greater diversification of exports to this country and at the same time deepen cooperation in bilateral technology transfer.
Candidate profile
Mariano Beheran is currently the chief of advisors to the Cabinet of the Secretary of Agroindustry. The official is Graduate in Economics and Agricultural Administration from the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), with a postgraduate degree in Negotiation and Change from that University. In addition, he completed further studies in Agricultural Business Management at the University of San Andrés.
He was an advisor on Institutional Liaison for the Argentine Association of Regional Consortiums for Agricultural Experimentation (AACREA) and for the firm Rumek, a company dedicated to the export of agro-industrial technology and know-how to Ukraine and the Black Sea region; and Marketing Manager at Juan Debernardi SRL, a company dedicated to the sale and advice of bovine genetics. He has experience working abroad, in New Zealand, Ukraine and India.
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