Cadenas de valor en el sector agroindustrial en la Provincia de San Luis. Industrialización

Abstract

In San Luis province there are 400,000 arable of land hectares to enable a potential of 700,000 hectares. The predominant crops are oilseeds, primarily soybeans, corn and sunflower. Both agriculture and stock farm has grown in recent years: stock farm sector grew by 7% in the last year, and agriculture is in a major transition for incorporation of technology by producer that allows growth in a province with a different climate from the wet pampas; this, combined with public works, creates a synergism that has increased the productive sector. In agro products supply chain, one of the important links is the industrialization in source, which primarily objective is to commercialize the product industrialized to foreign markets.

As a result of tax benefits that San Luis province has, plus the advantage of its location in the bioceanic corridor, industrial filing was more important than in other provinces. Of all the industries in the province, the percentage of foods industry is 8 percent (29 companies); between them there are companies which used as raw materials soybean and corn.

The aim of this paper is to study the link of industrialization in the supply chain of soybean and corn in San Luis province using data obtained from key informants, interviews of industry, papers, bibliography from congress, statistical information from the Economy Ministry from Argentine Republic and Provincial Direction of statistical and Cense.