Bales with passport: alfalfa exports, a green sprout that takes color from Córdoba, Argentina
Alfalfa
Argentina
Published Feb 14, 2021
Tridge summary
Foreign trade has been jumping relentlessly: shipments have quadrupled in the last five years. In Córdoba, a national chamber was formed to promote the chain.
Original content
Alfalfa growers are cautious and prefer to look at the half-empty glass or the darkest part of the leaf, in this case. The incidence of Argentine exports worldwide is negligible: within a global market that moves more than eight million tons per year, it was only in the last two years that local shipments managed to overcome the barrier of 100,000 tons. However, this figure is a photo that shows a film that has been constantly on the rise in recent years and that reflects the opportunity that the country has to become an actor with a greater role in the trade of one of the main forage species. The green sprout (the glass half full) is that, according to Indec data, between the categories "flours and pellets" and "plants, roots and fodder products" (this segment includes hay), last year Argentina exported 120 thousand tons of alfalfa products, which brought to the country 34.6 million dollars. Both figures are record: the previous maximum, corresponding to 2019, was 105 thousand ...
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