Yearbook 2025: agriculture toasts to the path of withholdings, on the decline and "with no turning back"

It is, by far, the most persistent topic in agricultural matters in public opinion. Anyone who wants to "speak" to the sector and establish a fluid link with producers and companies could not lack at least an elaborate message on the subject. Some usually call it "DEX", for Export Rights. But commonly, the word in which (almost) all the evils for the Argentine countryside reside is called "retentions". For the Sociedad Rural Argentina, until 2024 the number of the "Era of Retentions" was a transfer from the producers to the National State of no less than US$190 billion over more than 20 years. "Now it is in the order of US$209 billion," they updated upon the query of Infocampo for this Yearbook 2025. "In the 'Era of Food', Brazil was the winner and, in addition, there is a group of countries that took advantage of this time to improve their productivity and gain participation in the global market," pointed out the entity's economist Ezequiel de Freijo, in charge of the entity's ...