Aloe Production in Argentina

In Argentina, the introduction of aloe commercial cultivation is recent, beginning at the end of 90´s. The main producing zones are in the province of Cordoba and Santa Fe. The main cultivated variety is the aloe saponaria, and to a lesser extent the aloe barbadensis miller and the aloe arborescens. Other producing provinces but with smaller volume are Chaco, Formosa, Misiones, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Tucumán and Buenos Aires. There are no other varieties of aloe in commercial plantations in Argentina.

Aloe Production in other Mercosur countries

In Brazil, some aloe vera plantations are found, but is not really relevant yet. Plantations are located in Santa Catarina, Parana, Rio Grande do Sul and Sao Paulo states, with processing industries in the four states. Even with local offer, most of aloe is imported, but Brazil also exports aloe to Germany.

Aloe Industrialization

After diverse investigations at worldwide level, it is known that the properties of this plant are based in the concentration of all the elements that contains.

For this reason the aloe gel must stabilized. Some industries have patents for this process and its technology goes from simple to complex processes. Usually is processed in cold with the minimum of additives for its stabilization, although some plants proceses it in hot.