Overview
- Official data released by Economy Minister Luis Caputo show agroindustrial shipments totaled 63 million tonnes with export receipts of US$27,447 million, representing year-on-year rises in both volume and value.
- Thirty-seven export complexes, which made up about 70% of total volume, increased shipments versus the prior year, driving broad-based growth across the sector.
- Several product groups posted large gains, led by sunflower shipments up about 129%, wheat up 56%, legumes up 48% and dairy up 24%.
- Argentina recorded the return of 25 products to export markets after years away, including safflower seeds, pork fat, goat meat, apples, pears and dried apricots, widening the country’s product mix.
- Ten destination markets concentrated more than half of exports, strengthening foreign-exchange inflows and signaling potential impacts on domestic rural incomes, regional supply chains and trade policy choices going forward.