The field not for. The calendar is small to house so many events. This supplement too. We come from Aapresid’s week, which was followed in Rosario on the weather and the Pan American Biofuel Summit. And this week, right there, the International Corn Congress, which we realize in the interior pages of this edition of Clarin Rural.
But the great milestone went to the Argentine cotton chain. Thursday, in the Buenos Aires Cereal Stock Exchange, Gender presented the First biotechnological event approved in the country. And he took the opportunity to highlight that “White Gold” begins a new path in the country, with an agenda of new technologies and seed genetics that will consolidate the competitiveness of cotton. It is necessary: it is a Value chain of enormous importance in the northbut you need to create competitiveness to Cut the distance that the great global actors from the international market have taken him: United States, Brazil and Australia.
From the presentation of these advances in the cotton industry, Pablo Vaqueropresident of Gensus, said that the incorporation of New Technologies and Geneticstogether with a management adequate crop will allow to obtain higher fiber quality and a sustained increase in performanceand therefore a greater production and more exports. “Facing 2030, we hope that Argentina can double production, tripling exports and bring the billing of the chain to more than 1700 million dollarsthanks to yields in the fields of cotton producers, which more than 60% will growwith a 30% surface increase and an articulated cotton network to consolidate Argentine cotton as a global relevance actor. ”
There is a lot of crumb in Gensus, born 9 years ago with the aim of renewing cotton genetics. Established one Strategic Alliance with INTAhistorical actor of the activity from the experimental Saenz Peña (province of the Chaco). This public-private articulation allowed the country to be placed on the international mapfrom several developments such as Triple stackthe gene edition and the Mutagenesis which gave rise to the first IMI cotton in the world. He is waking up interest in Spain And it is evaluating in the United States.
The event was attended by the governor of Chaco, Leandro Zdero. “Many times the slow state hinders,” he said, “but for that we have drawn a Strategic plan That has a look at this crop, which is part of our identity. We value what Gensus is doing in our province. ”
The president of INTA, Nicolás Bronzovichreferred to the agreement of Technological collaboration With the company, which began in 2018 with the licensing of 3 varieties, of 3 INTA products so that Gensus takes them to the market. Mauricio TcachINTA EEA SAENZ PEÑA, said: “We started this link with Gensus in 2018 until today to take seeds to the US allowed to measure if our germplasma was competitive and we realized that. Today we generate events and we have alliances with other companies in the world. ”
Y Manuel Chiappeon behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Nation, the speed with which it was released to the market The new event: in just five months. “This dynamic is required for processes to flow”.
Not everything is genetic and handling. Logistics also plays a key role. And things happen: a few weeks ago we attend the inauguration of the new facilities of LDC In Zarate. “We work to connect production with global demand, carrying the Argentina’s fiber to more consumers worldwide“He said Pablo YezdrichLDC cotton head for the Latin American and West region. He assured that Argentina has ample space, with Consolidated clients in many markets And that explains the recent investments of the company.
Yes, there is a new path for cotton.