If there are almond trees in the southern Buenos Aires province, it is thanks to agronomist Federico Roncoroni, who set out to look for alternatives to the crops.

Like any pioneer, Federico Roncoroni can make a long list of mistakes he made when he decided to plant almond trees in Coronel Dorrego. Fifteen years after that decision, which many may have judged to be crazy, he can also note a long list of successes. Among them, that the activity can now be developed intensively and in conjunction with olive production, another "boom" that has been attracting investors in the region for several years. Thanks to his early experience, which was perfected over the years, in the southeastern Buenos Aires province, almond trees have started to gain ground as faithful companions of olive farming. A hundred producers are betting on these alternative routes to traditional grains. These new approaches are intensive and have been perfected so much that Roncoroni has baptized them as "woody agriculture." He has no doubts that almonds and olive trees still have much to grow in southern Buenos Aires. In reality, this agricultural engineer's initial plans ...