Argentine farmers said on Sunday they will lift a week-long strike that halted grain markets in the commodity powerhouse, but they vowed to resume protesting the government’s export curbs that affect their incomes.
Farmers, who have been at odds with President Cristina Fernandez for years, blockaded a Cargill plant and halted sales of corn, wheat and soy this week to protest export quotas they say allows exporters to pay them low prices.
The strike rekindled memories of a farmers protest in 2008 that rattled global commodity markets and disrupted the nation’s multibillion-dollar grains shipments.