Argentinian dairy and its actors.

El año 2015, con 12.061 millones de litros, marcó la mayor producción de leche en Argentina. Debido a la crisis, la misma cayó -14,7% en su producción de leche durante el año 2016 y otro -1.9% menos en 2017 tocando fondo. Lentamente se va recuperando la leche perdida. El año 2024 cerró con -6,5% con respecto al 2023 para totalizar 10.590 millones de litros y es de esperar un crecimiento superior al 6% para el 2025. Argentina pierde su lugar como 3ra exportadora de leche en polvo entera a manos de Uruguay. De ése volumen se consume unos 8.800 mill lts (a razón de 190 equivalente litros/cápita), quedando un remanente exportable de 2.500 mill de lts (55 litros/cápita).

En el siguiente cuadro podemos observar la evolución de los sistemas de producción de leche en Argentina, un estimado para 2025 y una proyección para el 2030:

The sector generated a net value of $6801,71 million in 2021 (IAPUCo) and represent a level of direct and indirect employment of 187,000 direct jobs positions, with primary production by providing 42,800 and the industrial sector 33,125 direct jobs (FUNPEL, 2022). 

The limitations to the sustained growth of the dairy argentina recognize, on the one hand, factors-macroeconomic and, on the other, the inherent problems of the chain. Obviously, both planes are related.

Debemos transparentar la gestión del precio de la leche, como así también la información vinculada a la operatoria general de la Cadena Láctea. También generar un entorno económico con reglas de juego claras y seguridad jurídica garantida que permitan atraer inversiones como para facilitar adopción de tecnología en la producción primaria e industrial de modo de potenciar el crecimiento de la producción y garantizar poder aumentar los volúmenes exportables.

-Concentration of the primary sector of production

The process of concentration que se observa en el mundo también sucede en Argentina donde de los 40.000 tambos que existían en la década de los sesenta nos encontramos que en la actualidad se estima alrededor de 9.000 tambos comerciales. En el siguiente gráfico podemos ver la distribución de esos tambos por producción diaria de leche (OCLA, diciembre 2023):

-Geographical distribution of the drums and the rodeo dairy

SENASA December 2021

-Scale of the drums by province

 SENASA, March 2017
  • Major companies producing milk of Argentina                                        (Survey TODOAGRO 2018)

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Description of the sector of the dairy industry

There are in Argentina 670 industries, milk processing enabled that feature 36,000 employees (AFIP 2013), of which 450 buy milk to third parties. The largest are located in Buenos Aires and Santa Fé:

-Main processing industries:

Existen en Argentina 670 industrias procesadoras de leche habilitadas que cuentan con 36.000 empleados (AFIP 2013), las de mayor tamaño se ubican en Buenos Aires y Santa Fé. En el siguiente listado las principales industrias en recibo de leche (elaboración propia con datos del OCLA) y la evolución del recibo de leche de las primeras 10 industrias en el ranking nacional:

– Profile of the dairy industry national

Summary of the survey on a national scale made by MINAGRI with the provincial governments totaling 670 dairies in the country:

-Destinations of the raw milk

Own elaboration with data from MINAGRI

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24 thought on “La lechería argentina y sus actores”

    1. Hi Nicholas, that information with list of plants and their receipt journal was published in the magazine Infortambo in 2014. It was more a complete list of their own that I will be updating from what was published by Azpiazu, Gutman and Vispo in "The deregulation of the Markets," march 1999.

  1. should not the Siglea or Funpel issue monthly this statistical Ranking of dairy companies ?? at least the milk formal?

  2. Good afternoon, sorry for the ignorance, I would like to know who and how the price of milk.
    Many thanks

    1. Hi Peter, it is a question wide!. The argentine industry is arming the price paid to the producer is currently 80% by composition and quality hygienic-sanitary and a 20% bonus trade (some of them tabulables and others not). The SIGLeA gathers information about 8,400 of payouts made each month and publishes the average price and the pictures opening up a little bit of the information that is published on the Command Board of the Minagri. Among the claims of the production is to make a reduction of bonuses commercial and limiting them to those tabulables and a discrimination of the freight of the raw material, among other things.

  3. Hello, do you know how much investment has been made in the industry of processing of dairy products in 2017 and 2018? Many thanks.

    1. This info does not have it...difficult years to invest...now if you are making considerable investments in the industrial sector both in Córdoba and Santa Fé and Buenos Aires...but we don't have the amounts

      1. Thanks for your reply,
        After some research, I would say that are a little more than a Thousand million ARS in 2017 and 2018.
        Do you know if there are figures on the debt of the dairy farms (for example, $/cow) ? Thank you.

    1. The social actors are all q interact according to the interest activity-specific, in this case: the dairy chain. Then I would include every character involved in the cluster dairy, dairy farmers, veterinarians, agronomists , suppliers, production and industry, carriers, and employees in factory processing, etc

  4. Ricardo Figoli

    Hello ! Go to the page of COTAR (Cooperative of dairy farmers of Rosario), a firm's flagship was the first plant milk of South america (1963), which reports that processes 8 million liters of gasoline a month (about 260mil liters per day).
    Why is not listed in any ranking of processors of milk ?

    1. Hi Ricardo, thanks for your note thanks to her we update rankings 2020..there figure COTAR with your receipt manifested the past years to the people of TODOAGRO on the other hand I commented that there were plants milk since the early 1900's in Argentina, and there are currently functioning founded in 1931

  5. Concerning the Description of the sector of the dairy industry is up-to-date information to you ?. And that source is?.

    1. the social actors of a string are the people that have a role within the same that brings to its development...the tambero, the academic, the technician, truck driver, etc

    1. According to the records of GOVERNMENT in 2020 to Villarino had 7 dairy farms with 14 drums and a total of 5.634 dairy cows. In other locations we have observed a reduction of this info between 25% and 30% in the number of dairy farms

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