The latest edition of Infobae Talks focused on opportunities for field developmenta sector that offers the main raw material for the food production in the country. In your case, the agriculture is crossed by digitization and regenerative methods, as recognized by the president and CEO of Bayer Southern ConeJuan Farinati, a company that accompanies farmers to improve their production.
Both now and in the future, the agriculture is essential for the food production for the Argentina and the sector is transforming to produce more food and more efficiently. In this line, innovations are of two types.
“There is a transformation of how we use technology and digitization to accelerate the product development, both phytosanitary, seeds, biotechnology, etc. Everything has data science behind it and tools that allow us to accelerate and enhance the way we generate innovation for the sector”, explained Farinati.
The digitization it also reached the daily activity of the farmer. “When I graduated, one controlled the crops by going to a field. Today they are controlled remotely through the sensors that exist in the machines and one can know what is happening in a field thousands of kilometers away”, described the CEO of Bayer Southern Cone.
The opportunities of field developmentanalyzed in this edition of Infobae Talks, necessarily linked to the agriculture of the future. There they connect the innovation and the precisionaccording to Juan Farinati, president and CEO of Bayer Cono Sur.
“In the past we had a lot of innovation and technologies available to growers, but they might not have the information to use them accurately. Today they can connect the two things, first-generation innovation and data to be able to use it in the most effective way possible,” Farinati said.
The example of fertilizer doses is very graphic. “The machinery we have today together with data science allows you to regulate fertilization meter by meter as a machine advances through a field. There you connect two very important variables: first-generation innovation and its use in the producer’s lot”, exemplified the president of Bayer Cono Sur.
“In 2008 we also had a drought similar to that of this year and in the core zone it rained 60% of the usual, while this year it rained 30%, but Argentina produced 30% more now than in 2008, this is due to the advance of technology and precision agriculture”, exemplifies Farinati.
A further transformation that is taking place is not just how to produce more food and better, but to do it more sustainable. This will be increasingly relevant in future agriculture, however, Argentina has been doing it for a long time.
“In Argentina practically 95% of the surface It is made with direct sowingwhich is the basis of any sustainable agriculture and you don’t see this in any other geography worldwide. And today we are going to another level and we are already talking about regenerative agriculture which is what allows fixing carbon in the soil, a fundamental tool for combat climate change”, highlighted Juan Farinati in Infobae Talks Campo.
On the other hand, in terms of sustainabilitythe country stands out for its efforts to continue improving the toxicological profile of the products and the use of plastics. “Today you have new marketing models for phytosanitary products that allow the producer not to use plastic in the field. And the markets are going to be asking us for more and more details about how the different products are produced, doing it in a sustainable way is going to be a great differentiator”, acknowledged Farinati.
In this line, the companies develop tools for producers to improve their sustainable practices in their agricultural activities. Such is the case of Bayer PRO Carbon Programthrough which the producer who makes regenerative agriculture receive benefits in interest rates, credit for inputs, etc.
“The producer will not be able to access certain markets in the future if he does not do sustainable agriculture and, at the same time, today he is already receiving economic benefits that impact his profitability. And there is an enormous interest on the part of farmers in Argentina in that sense,” said the CEO of Bayer Southern Cone.
He agro-industrial sector of the country is immense and has enormous potential. “Argentina has a very large agricultural sector where perhaps we work in isolation, it is very important to develop a common vision to be able to focus on how we raise the bar,” concluded Juan Farinati in Infobae Talks Field.
The agriculture is one of the pillars of the Argentina of today and of the future.
