Can’t wait to add. okay, why in this crack country we are always ready to find a problem for every solution. Or when one idea appears, we oppose another. And I think it’s not one or the other, but both. Even if I have a heart more for one than for the other. Go on.
It is very good that the Secretary of Development Planning and Federal Competitiveness, Jorge Neme, has launched a ambitious irrigation plan. In 5 years they would add 2 million hectares, the same area as today, and they intend to arrive in a decade the maximum objective: 8.3 million hectareswhich is the potential for our country raised by a FAO study carried out between 2013 and 2015.
We have discussed this matter several times. Especially since huge losses caused by the drought of recent years. We believe that coupled with good agricultural practices and the advent of technologies like HB4 in wheat and soybeans, irrigation is the master key for a new productive leap in the era of the Second Pampas Revolution. Securing the water is putting a new floor to the field, because it would allow us to go deep with offensive models.like the ones that the great architects of the leap in performance liked between 1995 and 2020. Ramón Agrasar, Victor Trucco, Rogelio Fogante, Eduardo Leguizamón, Francisco Firpo and many others who have placed milestones on this path.
They will tell me: “This government has already been, and Neme is a high official who now appears with this posthumous speech.” WELL, the important thing is that he took charge of something that we withheldparaphrasing the great engineer Aníbal Colombo: “Not a drop of water in the sea”. We have extraordinary water resources, but we take advantage of it with the dropper. In the former wet pampas, we drill and irrigate from an aquifer, but the big task is to exploit the great rivers that cross the country from north to south and from west to east, descending from the Brazilian and Paraguayan Planalto mountain range. Let’s do something with the Paraná, the Bermejo, the First, the Second, the Third, the Fourth and the Fifth. The Colorado, the Rio Negro, the Chubut, the Santa Cruz. Or take advantage of it for drainage, they are just as necessary as transporting water.
I know, “Difficult to agree on the docks”. WELL, it’s time.
Others will say, we know that too irrigation “has its problems”. Whether the water has salts, or brings them out, etc. There are known techniques that allow this manage salinity. From water-correctors (as in California, where “gypsum” (read plaster) is commonplace. Or how they do well producers in southern Santa Fe, who adjust irrigation based on the evolution of the salinization parameters they measure. Because rainwater (which is distilled water) has a washing effect. In short, this can be addressed. We saw in Chile, many years ago, alfalfa seed planted in fields previously entrenched with the Dondi, allowing the salt water drainage. AS they washed lots and had some spectacular alfalfa.
WELL, It doesn’t matter if Neme is a Peronist and leaves. The idea of a question State policy, with international funding, to do what needs to be done. Just do it. From time to time, Peronism gets things right. We will not deny Fiorenzo Randazzo what did he do when he took away the issuing of passports to the Federal Police (even the DNI) or Computerized Migrations and the improvement of trains. After all, many top officials have joined the government of Carlos Menem. Among them, Neme himself.
Now I go to what I don’t like it much, but it’s not for putting yourself on the opposite sidewalk. This government is full of two issues which, in my view, do not have a long-term perspective. One is Dead Cow. Another is the electric car. They are on the agenda.
Vaca Muerta is here and now. We need gas for the petrochemical industry and power generation. But the world is already in something else. Furthermore, the news arriving from the United States, where in recent years there has been a boom in shale oil and shale gas, is not encouraging. The main deposits have already peaked (have peaked) and production is falling apart. Careful.
The electric car has several aspects. One, the abundance of lithium, undoubtedly a resource of tremendous potential. But The cold runs down my spine when I hear someone say that “we are not afraid to export lithium, we must export electric cars”. We were already there. It’s okay to support the electric car, but not at the expense of the resource.
And since we’re on the subject of addition, at this point it’s worth thinking that maybe we are missing out on the opportunity to unite Brazil with its idea of mobility, based on biofuels. Finally, if we do the irrigation proposed by Neme, we will have 50 million tons of corn left in the short term. And 5 million tons of soybean oil. Ethanol and biodiesel are growing by leaps and bounds in Brazil and also in the United States.
See how it all adds up? It’s not A or B. It’s A+B.
Source: Clarin
