This Wednesday will go down in the annals of Expoagro as the day when almost all the foreign ambassadors arrived to visit the exhibition, a joint initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the organizers to show what is a whole array of new machines and techniques, the driving force of nascent digital agriculture.
What was striking was the amazement of the First World ambassadors on a visit where Diana Mondino used her teaching skills to explain the direct sowing, the drying mechanism, articulated tractors and even the technique for obtaining hybrid maize high performance.
Knowledge, he said, gained from “careful reading” of rural newspaper supplements.
“Korea is a leader in artificial intelligence, but here I saw a combination of these two factors biotechnology and robotics which leads me to think about Argentina’s role in food production in the world,” Ambassador Yongsoo Lee enthused.
Hussein Alassiri, the Saudi Arabian ambassador, was surprised by the news genetic progress in seeds. “Here we see not the field but everything moving with a level of technological sophistication that we did not know,” he said.
Alassiri said some 120 Argentine companies They were at the Dubai food fair and believe trade will increase.
“There are opportunities, that’s enough open the bird market and you can export to us“, promised Kirsty Hayes, ambassador of the United Kingdom, in response to the statements of Mario Ravettino, of the refrigerator consortium, who called for London increase Hilton share. Hayes praised the drought-tolerant seeds developed by Bioceres.
Some have emphasized sustainable production in a world that is in a climate emergency. The Finnish ambassador, Nicola Lindertz, was amazed that the seeds of Don Mario, of the Bartolomé family and of his feet on all continents, are for every need, whether it be geographical areas with excess water or lack of rain.
Alarms developed with artificial intelligence for both possible weather events and market shocks, to protect against a possible disaster, attracted the attention of the Salvadoran ambassador, Eduardo Cardoza Mata, who assured that the country presided over by Bukele will buy more meat.
Seeders that place the seed next to the fertilizer and save the data on the screen for later monitoring, digital crop control systems with alarms against the appearance of fungi, insects and weeds, were highly commented on by these ambassadors from countries technological, such as Inge Horstmeier, ambassador of the Netherlands together with the commercial attaché Roelof van Ees.
Both underlined this “Argentina produces naturally”, in obvious reference to direct sowing which, far from damaging, fertilizes uncultivated land and drastically reduces fuel consumption.
Of course Hosrtmeier was not deprived of the political message: “As we see the Argentine power in agriculture and its technical quality, so we have a great expectation that things will improve. “You’re in full transition” said at the end of a visit which ended with a good plate of meat and a cheers for the barbecue.
Source: Clarin
