They are looking to open 25 new markets for the Argentine dairy sector by 2025

Through the Agri-Food Secretariat, the government will try to increase milk exports. To this end, it will seek to increase by 8 percentage points the share of sales of domestic milk production. from here 2025 to reach 30% and 100 markets.

From this portfolio, they raised the intention to move on a share of 22% in 2018 to 30% in 2025, and that destinations go from 75 to 100 countries. According to the undersecretary of the dairy, Alejandro Sammartino, export participation has reached 2018 a "historic level" thanks to the measures adopted.

"Since 2004, exports have started to be a very good business for all countries, least for us because of source deductions and price reductions (established by the previous government)," he said. Telam. The official estimated that in 2019 milk production will increase by 2% compared to 2018when 10.639 million liters were produced.

For his part, the Secretary of Agribusiness, Luis Miguel Etchevehere, pointed out that a year ago, they had directed the dairy to export the government. "We have spent 2018 exports between $ 700 million and $ 1 billion," he said.

In 2018, Argentina exported 333,654 mt of dairy products for an amount of US $ 1008.3 million, while in the first quarter of 2019, 72,601 mt were exported for an amount of 210 US $ 330,000. The main markets They are Russia, Chile and Brazil, but it is also interesting to have access to Japan, China, South Korea and Mexico.