Zerboni: "Argentina must process more corn if it wants to compete with large producers."

Federico Zerboni, president of Maizar, spoke with Chacra Agro Continental and highlighted the urgent need to advance the transformation of corn as a driver of development, employment, and sustainability for the country. On the eve of the chain's annual congress, he announced that the focus will be on the added value and territorial impact of the crop. "We are working hard for this year's congress. Maizar brings together more than 50 institutions from across the corn and sorghum chain: producers, seed companies, dry and wet processing industries, exporters, ethanol, and animal protein. It's a vast and very diverse chain," said Zerboni. One of the meeting's focuses will be to demonstrate, with concrete data, the positive impact of processing corn at source. "We always talk about adding value, but it's just rhetoric. This year, we created a matrix with ITBA (the Institute of Agricultural Technology and Business Administration) where we will show, with numbers, the impact that an ...