While these days the National Congress discussed a new scheme of deductions for the export of soybeans, the General Audit Office (AGN, for its acronym in Spanish) had already analyzed in 2006 the consequences of the "soybean production" of farming. At that time, the watchdog addressed the work of the National Agricultural Technology Institute (INTA, for its acronym in Spanish), and lack of specific projects to assess and mitigate the environmental impact of the oil monoculture.

Among its general conclusions, the AGN said the prevailing soy model intensified agricultural production systems in Argentina and caused "deforestation, pollution, erosion and degradation of natural resources". It added that the expansion of the agricultural frontier was a process "modeled by the private sector, with minimal control by the Government".
 
According to the audit, INTA has limitations that are related to the legal vacuum of the provinces in terms of conservation of fertile lands. It’s that jurisdictions have no plans for environmental and land management to diversify farming. The AGN noted that the State did not progress in the operationalization of the General Environmental Law No. 25,675, enacted on November 6, 2002.
 
But the soy boom not only has negative impacts on the environment. The watchdog also studied some effects on social variables, such as the depopulation of regions, concentration of land ownership and the promotion of labor which involves transferring workers according to the specific demands of labor. For example, 19 percent of rural towns of Santiago del Estero, the province with the largest acreage decreased the population and at the same time, poverty rates rose and basic needs. In this sense, "the INTA no local production models designed to offset losses from other traditional agricultural activities", completed the inspection body.
 
The numbers of soybean speak for themselves: in 2005, export taxes reported him to the Federal Government 1,700 million and the country has 14 million hectares with an annual production of 38 million tons. However, before this data the AGN noted that "the characteristics of the agriculturization in Northwest Argentina makes you think about the risks of not planning the use of the territories" and urged the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Office, which is in the orbit of the Ministry of Economy, to exercise "an active role in the design of agricultural policies and the use and conservation of soil resources, to minimize environmental impacts".