In Macri’s Sputtering Argentina, Best Bet Is Being a Farmer
- Bargain loans for agricultural sector driving investments
- Broader economy is lagging under President Mauricio Macri
A farmer drives his tractor during the soybean harvest at a farm near Salto, in the north of Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
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The best job in Argentina right now is farming.
Thanks to friendly government policies, booming harvests and a surge of cheap credit, the nation’s crop growers are thriving. That’s making agriculture an outlier as labor unions besiege President Mauricio Macri with wage demands and strikes, inflation proves tough to tame and car manufacturers lay off workers.