Corrientes - Argentina

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Corrientes - Argentina
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Corrientes - Argentina
Location of
Corrientes in
the American
Continent
It limits with three
Countries
PARAGUAY - BRAZIL - URUGUAY
Located at the heart of
the MERCOSUR (Southern
Common Market).
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ARGENTINA
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GEOPOLITICAL STRATEGIC AND
PRIVILEGED LOCATION IN THE
MERCOSUR
IIRSA Axis: It is an iniciative of
12 Southamerican Countries
that aims the promotion the
development of transport
infrastructure, electric power
infrastructure and comunications
infrastructure under a regional
vission.
Axis linked to Corrientes:
1.Capricorn
2.Hydrovia Paraná-Paraguay
3.MERCOSUR-Chile
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GENERAL
CHARACTERIZATION
OF THE PROVINCE
Located in the Argentinean
Northeastern area.
Total area: 88,886 km2
Capital City: Corrientes City, which
is one of the most developed
urban centres of the Region.
There are 68 municipalities
endowed with political and
administrative capabilities.
Regionally integrated Economy.
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9 industrial areas: Corrientes City, Bella Vista, Goya,
Esquina, Concepción, Monte Caseros, Santo Tomé, Santa
Rosa and Ituzaingó.
Great Potential Port Areas: Important present and
potential means of communication with
other provinces and bordering Countries.
Duty Free Area in Paso de los Libres city, second
custom office and first dry port of the whole Country.
Potential Industrial Park in Gobernador Virasoro
Town. At the present, the studies of the executive project
were awarded.
Road Conectivity suitable for logistics and
transportation of the local production
Special Areas
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HUMAN
RESOURCES
Disponibility of suitable human resources. These are
receptive and disposed to technlogical changes.
Population (2008): 1.013.443
Urban Population: 79,4%
Rural Population: 20,6%
people/km2
Average annual growth rate: 1,10%
Economically Active Population: 50,4%
Average Density: 11,4
Life Expentancy at birth: Men
Women 77,99 years
70,55 years and
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Illiteracy Rate: 6,5%
Net Scholarization Rate: 80,4% (Elementary
School and High School).
The percentage of people in the economically
active population who had finished High
School in the urban conglomerates is
49.4%. This percentage is the highest one
in the Argentinean Northeastern
There are a Public University (UNNE: Notheastern
National University), four private Universities and
several Institutes of pre degree studies.
HUMAN
RESOURCES
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SUSTAINED GROWTH OF LOCAL
GROSS INCOME
PROGRESS OF LOCAL GROSS INCOME
Pesos
14.000
330%
12.000
11.864
10.000
8.000
6.000
25%
4.000
2.000
4.484
3.597
0
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
PRECIOS CORRIENTES
PRECIOS CONSTANTES DE 1993
Source: Dirección de Estadísticas y Censos de Corrientes
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Productive Structure Argentina`s
Gross Internal Product Corrientes`
Gross Local Income.
NATIONAL SECTORIAL STRUCTURE
TERCIARIO
66%
SECUNDARIO
CORRIENTES´ SECTORIAL STRUCTURE
PRIMARIO
66%
26%
27%
8%
7%
58%
66%
31%
24%
10%
11%
1995
1995
2008
2008
SOURCE: DEYC E INDEC
Corrientes Province has a productive structure that is similar to the National one. In both
cases the highest share is from the tertiary sector, followed by the secondary and primary
sectors respectively
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Provincial Agricultural
Productive Structure
PROVINCIAL AGRICULTURAL AREA 2008/09
RESTO
MANDARINA
100%
40%
29.400
11.500
14.200
15.000
19.000
19.500
30.400
20%
80.000
80%
60%
HORTICOLAS
MAIZ
NARANJA
YERBA MATE
SOJA
0%
TOTAL
1
219.000
ha
ARROZ
FUENTE: Dirección de Estadística y Censo de la Provincia de Corrientes
About 50% of the agicultural productive structure is destinated to rice production.
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Exports Composition
Exports Growth
EXPORTS EVOLUTION
MILLONES DE USD
280
230
225
180
177
135
130
111
137
100
80
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008*
2009*
Fuente: Deyc
Exports have been experiencing a sustained growth since 2005. Between 2005 and 2009
exports experienced a growth of 12%. In the same time period the growth rate of the
Province Economy was 4% per year in average.
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Exports Composition
PROVINCIAL EXPORTS IN 2009
4%
19%
ARROZ
7%
62%
CARNE VACUNA
MADERA
8%
CITRUS
OTROS
FUENTE: DEYC E INDEC
There is a strong link with neighbour countries, specially with Brazil; and also with other
countries of the continent as Venezuela, who is one of main international destination of
local rice production.
Forestry Sector
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Forestry Sector
Main Characteristics and Potentialities
• It has the highest growth potential compared to the rest
of main productive sectors in the local Economy.
• The year growth rate of the afforested area in the province
Pine y
Eucaliptus
Concepción
Saladas
Pine y
Eucaliptus
is the highest in the whole country.
Santo Tomé
Gobernador Virasoro
Ituzaingó
• The average growth rate of the forested mass is very high,
approximately 40 m3 hectares per year.
• Corrientes Province has the biggest afforested area in the
whole country (around 420.000 hectares).
Pine y
Eucaliptus
Eucaliptus
Goya
Esquina
Forestry Sector´s Gross Internal Product (2008)
USD 190 millones (3,8% of the Province´s GIP)
Monte Caseros
Paso de los Libres
Annual Production (2008) 8 million tons per year.
Nowadays the majority of the production is sold in the home market; allocating a significantly lower
quantity of production to the foreing markets. In both cases, mainly products with low added value are
comercialized.
Rice Sector
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Rice Sector
3.000 a
8.000 Tn.
Main Characteristics and Potentialities
•Water disponibility
• High productivity levels. About 6.865 tons per hectare.
• Potentiality of increasing the annual production at 1.3 million
tons.
• Direct
Seeding technique is used. The irrigation system is
supplied by dams (60%), lakes and streams(30%), rillings (5%)
and others (5%).
• High-tech
used in production process. Great Genetic
advances. Internationally Competitive Capacity.
1.000 a
3.000 Tn.
1.000 a
3.000 Tn.
8.000 a
18.000 Tn
3.000 a
8.000 Tn.
Sector GLP (2008) USD 105 million
Annual Production (2008) 540.000 tons.
1.000 a
3.000 Tn.
1.000 a
3.000 Tn.
Planted Area: 78,314 hectares. Corrientes is the second most important province in rice production of the
whole country, with 38% of the total planted area.
Citrus Sector
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Citrus Sector
Main Characteristics and Potentialities
•Performance: Between 10 and 15 tons per hectare.
• In Monte Caseros, productivity is above the world average (50
tons per hectare), beating Brazil, US and Spain.
• Counter Season with respect to the North Hemisphere and the
possibility of penetrate the market 2 or 3 weeks before the main
competitor (South Africa).
33%
10%
Sector GLP (2008) USD 63 million.
Annual Production (2008) 380,000 tons.
57%
Production Mix: 59% oranges, 29% tangerines, 10% lemon, 2%
others
The Citric Industry is enhanced by the participation of private actors through packing industries,
industries qualified for exportation and industries that produce concentrated juices and fruit purees.
Bovine Cattle Sector
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Bovine Cattle Sector
Main Characteristics and Potentialities
•Exploiting of pastures of spring summer growth.
• Growing exploiting of feedlot.
• Conversion into a full cicle region.
• Disponibility of technologies and industrial processes of proven
efficiency at improving productivity of beef industry enabling
quality improvements as well.
• There
is enough cattle to assure the sustained growth of
industrial activities linked to the cattle as slaughterhouses or
abattoirs,
Sector GLP (2008) USD 400 millIon. The biggest in the province.
Annual Production (2008) 312,000 tons a year and a stock
bigger than 5 million animals.
6,800,000 hectares is the total area destinated to cattle production.
44%
56%
Tourism Sector
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Tourism Sector
Main Characteristics and Potentialities
•Corrientes
has important attributes as
perimeter and internal rivers, streams and lakes, that
yet show a primitive state of nature.
• It also has one of the biggest wetlands
in the American Continent, the “Esteros del
Iberá” or Iberá Wetlands, which is a system of
swamps, marshes, streams and lakes.
• The folkloric,
religious and cultural demostrations
a patrimonial acquis of
different natures.
are embodied in
• The
province`s territory is divided in
seven
touristic corridors: Great Corrientes, High Paraná
River, Southern Paraná, Solar of the Traces, JesuiticalGuaraní, Ecotourism and Adventure, Southern
Corrientes.
Horticultural Sector
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Horticultural Sector
Main Characteristics and Potentialities
• It is a very dynamic sector.
• Suitable lands for this kind of Exploitation.
• Active Production from April to December supplying early season
vegetables.
• High tech Nursery Disponibility.
• Corrientes is the province with the biggest hibernaculum stock in
the Country.
57,2ha.
399,4 ha. <32 ha.
115,3 ha.
Sector GLP (2008) USD 90 million.
Annual Production (2008) 115.000 tons per year.
Production Mix: Tomatoes and Bell Peppers. Increasing
production of watermelon, corn, sweet potatoe and cassava
More than 90% of the production is sold in the internal market. 85% of the production is consumed as fresh
vegetables, and around 8% is industrialized
Yerba Mate y Tea Sector
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Yerba Mate y Tea Sector
Main Characteristics and Potentialities
•Great Industrialization Capacity.
• Strong internal market penetration.
• Increased productive capacity. Plants with low productivity were
replaced for new ones with better productivity and quality
standards.
Ituzaingó
Santo
Tomé
• Tea consumption and production are both experiencing a world
growth tendency; having very favourable perspectives in its
market.
Annual Production (2008) 110,000 tons per year.
Potential Hectare Productivity 6.819 tons per hectare.
In Corientes, there are about 8 mills, 14 industries dedicated to packaging and milling, and some of them are
exclusively yerba mate dryers
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STRENGTHENING REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY
INTERPROVINCIAL BRIDGES
CORRIENTES-CHACO ROAD-RAIL INTERCONNEXION.
GOYA – RECONQUISTA ROAD INTERCONNEXION
INTERNATIONAL BRIDGES
ALVEAR - ITAQUI BRIDGE
BRIDGE OF THE THREE BORDERS: MONTE CASEROS – BELLA UNIÓN –
BARRA DE QUAREIM
SECOND BRIDGE PASO DE LOS LIBRES -URUGUAIANA
ITUZAINGO-AYOLAS LINKAGE, EXPLOITING THE EXISTING
INFRASTRUCTURE OF YACYRETA DAM.
RAILROAD
IMPROVEMENT OF RAILROAD TRACES AND LINKAGE OF MESOPOTAMIC RAILROAD AND BELGRANO RAILROAD TROUGH THE
CARGO MULTIMODAL COMPLEX.
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STRENGTHENING REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY
BIOCEANIC CORRIDOR
NEW INTERCONNEXIONS AND IMPROVEMENT OF ROUTES INCLUDED IN
THE CORRIDOR.
HYDROVIAS AND PORTS
IMPROVEMENT OF NAVEGABILITY CONITIONS OF THE HYDROVIA PARANÁPARAGUAY. ASSURED MINIMUM DEPHT OF TEN FEET FROM SANTA FE TO
ITUZAINGO.
IMPROVEMENTS AND CONSTRUCTION OF NEW PORT FACILITIES AND PORT
ACCESSES IN SEVERAL LOCATIONS IN THE PROVINCE.
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stable electrical
connectivity
Ensuring
HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS
GARABI DAM
YACYRETA DAM
AÑA CUA DAM
SALTO GRANDE DAM
MIDDLE PARANÁ DAM
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GOALS AND OBJETIVES. LONG TERM PERSPECTIVE
How can Development be achieved?
• Through the integration of productive and social forces, strongly articulating public and
private efforts and interests.
• Long term planning, based on the general consensus of the whole society, breaking political
cicles.
• Planning of Basic Infrastructure that contribute to maximize the value adding of production
and provide accesses to new markets
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