Agriculture already has a forecast for the summer: Federico Mayer published a book in which he predicts the end of the production model as it currently stands.

"Our agricultural production is going to cease to exist as we know it in the next 20 years." That phrase hovered over the entire presentation of the book "Agro10x: The platform to empower Argentina" held on Monday in one of the auditoriums of La Rural. With that diagnosis, the work launched by Federico Mayer could well be a suspense novel or a dystopian chronicle that talks about a strange pandemic that sweeps away the agriculture as we know it. Nothing could be further from the truth. "This is an indispensable reading for those who want to understand the role of technology in the agroindustry of the future," summarizes in the prologue the producer, teacher, and former official Ricardo Negri, an old acquaintance of the CEO and founder of the Agtech Club and now author of a book whose presentation brought together leaders of the bioeconomy and representatives of the entire chain. And here a "spoiler" is admitted because Mayer himself pointed it out in his presentation: The current ...