Argentina: Family farmers will produce their own vegetable seeds

In the Cuyo region, a privileged area for obtaining quality horticultural seed, INTA has a history of work and knowledge generation: it does horticultural genetic improvement, production research, processing services, and seed quality analysis. For this reason, INTA and the Union of Land Workers (UTT) organized the training cycle in the production of horticultural seeds. The meetings had the support of the Central Market of Buenos Aires, through its president Nahuel Levaggi. Thus, during four virtual meetings, a specialist from INTA La Consulta –Mendoza– trained a hundred small producers from all over the country in the alternatives for the production of horticultural seeds. Farmers from the Union of Land Workers and the National Indigenous Peasant Movement “Somos Tierra” participated. The content of the virtual talks ranged from characterization of the horticultural seed and production variants, to aspects of marketable quality and registration of varieties, among other aspects. ...