"I won't leave until I see a kiwi," says the young intern Yamila Murashima, while very carefully taking care of the first plant.

A few weeks before the start of spring, anticipation at the Miramar experimental farm is at its peak, because all signs point to the fact that, for the first time, their experimental kiwi plantation will sprout, which means that next year there will be fruit to harvest. "I won't leave until I see a kiwi," says Yamila Murashima, one of the scholarship recipients who has been working there practically since the beginning of the production, when she was still in high school, taking her final classes, and they took advantage of visits to the government's experimental farm (which depends on the Ministry of Agrarian Development) to conduct training sessions. Fruit cultivation runs in Yamila's blood, as she was born in Japan, where she lived for 3 years before coming to Argentina. The large island is known worldwide for its work in food production, and many of her compatriots, in fact, have created fruit and vegetable farming communities in the country. She liked the work done at the ...