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Argentina continues to be the third largest producer of biotech crops after the United States and Brazil, producing 14 percent of the world´s total biotech crops.

Marketing year (MY) 2014 sunflowerseed area and production is now estimated at 530,000 hectares and 1.2 million metric tons (MMT).

Argentine beef exports in 2015 are forecast at 210,000 tons carcass wt equivalent, an increase from the 2014 estimate, but still an insignificant volume for what Argentina has historically exported.

Argentine 2015 broiler production is expected to reach a new record high of 2.15 million metric tons (MMT), in response to increasing Russian demand.

The MY 2014 Turkish cotton crop is forecast at 430,000 hectares and 680,000 MT (3.1 million bales).