Argentine agriculture is relatively capital intensive, today providing about 7% of all employment, and, even during its period of dominance around 1900, accounting for no more than a third of all labor. Having accounted for nearly 20% of GDP as late as 1959, it adds, directly, less than 10% today.

Agricultural goods, whether raw or processed earn over half of Argentina’s foreign exchange and arguably remain an indispensable pillar of the country’s social progress and economic prosperity. An estimated 10-15% of Argentine farmland is foreign owned.