Investigation: they reveal the strong spillover effect that producing more soy in Argentina would have

Entities representing agricultural producers insist on the need for the elimination of withholdings, or at least a sustained gradual reduction. A study analyzed what should happen for the elimination of withholdings on soybeans to have zero fiscal cost. Based on the 2023-2024 campaign, soybean production should grow by 28%. It should reach 61.7 million tons harvested, a figure 300,000 tons above the record of the 2014-2015 cycle. The data comes from a study by Adrián Gutiérrez Cabello, from the Regional Economics Center of the School of Economics and Business at the National University of San Martín (UNSAM). In a decade, the area planted with soybeans decreased by 16.3% (3.22 million hectares) while in that period, the area dedicated to corn grew by 5.07 million hectares. The report notes that Brazil, one of the largest soybean producers along with the United States, achieved a 22% increase in production between the 2020-2021 and 2024-2025 campaigns without affecting other crops. ...