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Argentine Renewable Energies Chamber
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Argentina has a large and sophisticated agricultural sector. It is among the world’s largest producers of corn and wheat, among many crops, and is the third largest producer of soy after the United States and Brazil. Additionally, because of its large size (Argentina is the eighth largest in the world) and comparatively low population of 40 million inhabitants, much of its agricultural production is exported. For example, it is the largest exporter of soy oil and has a large and sophisticated crushing complex with installed capacity of over 150'000 tons a day of soy. Hence, biofuel policy in Argentina is heavily focused on the agricultural component. Argentine biofuels policy combines a desire to find ways for the agricultural sector to expand industrially into renewable energy in the twenty first century and keeping it in the hands of small and medium enterprises. Because of this preference to develop smaller biodiesel production facilities that are geographically diverse, Argentine policy differentiates between those producing biofuels for domestic consumption and those that export.
