More control in wheat milling resulted into more "production" in Argentina

At the end of April 2019, Argentina implemented for all its territory, the obligation for flour mills to have an Electronic Wheat Milling Controller (CEMT) in the phase prior to the first cereal breaking (before 1st milling occurs). This, together with business intelligence work, enabled authorities to carry out much more strict monitoring of industrialized volumes.

The CEMT allowed the agents of the National Directorate of Agricultural Commercial Control to close down and apply fines to those mills in which undeclared merchandise was detected. Coincidentally (perhaps), since then, progressive growth in the recorded volumes of grinding has been observed.

During the last commercial cycle, the Argentine milling industry processed 30.8% of a wheat harvest of 19.75M tons (the highest level in the last eight years)

Between December 2019 and November 2020 - according to official data - the milling industry processed 6.07M tons of bread wheat, the highest number since 2011/12, when 6.12M tons were milled.