Overview
- ASAGIR's national congress, held Thursday in Mar del Plata, highlighted a near 7 million-ton crop this season, up about 94% from 2021/22, with 2025 oil output the highest since 2000 and export earnings up roughly 50% last year.
- Gustavo Idígoras said stoppages by self-organized truckers over the past seven days left Bahía Blanca and Quequén without a single ship loaded, delaying deliveries to buyers in India, Turkey and Bulgaria.
- He warned that late-March tests in Europe found pesticide residues above legal limits in Argentine sunflower shipments, including detections in Bulgaria that triggered tighter checks and hurt confidence.
- Executives set goals to double oil exports to 3 million tons, expand planted area above 4 million hectares and lift annual export revenue toward US$5 billion within three years, citing stronger demand that has shifted away from the Black Sea and toward suppliers like Argentina.
- To support that expansion, the sector asked the government to cut the 4.5% export duty and ease local levies, noting today’s output rivals the late 1990s while using about 1.3 million fewer hectares thanks to genetics and better farm management.