Argentina still does not give importance to pork exports and represents only 0.18% of global trade in this type of pork.

Increasing exports and bringing in genuine dollars that the countryside has historically generated has been the almost desperate request of this Government, which has said from the beginning that “there is no money.” However, within the agricultural sector, pork exports could fulfill this task and the opportunity is being lost. This is evidenced by a statistical analysis by Jorge Brunori, a member of the INTA Marcos Juárez de Córdoba pork group. The results are overwhelming since Argentina represents only 0.18% of the global trade in that meat. In the report, which covers the last 14 years (2010-2023), the expert showed that pork production in Argentina was 474,918 tons on an annual average, and only 3.1% of the total produced was destined for export. thus wasting a market with great demand. In this sense, the country's deficiency becomes more notable when compared to neighboring Brazil and Chile. The latter - in the period between 2010 and 2023 - with less productivity entered ...