"As long as there are withholdings and intellectual property is not valued, Sembrá Evolución is necessary": The view of Manuel Ro

In Venado Tuerto, in what Stine Argentina calls "the kitchen of the yield", Manuel Rosasco, CEO of the company, opens the doors to his genetic improvement program and, from there, presents a staunch defense of the Sembrá Evolución system and the need to advance towards UPOV 91. During the tour, Rosasco uses a metaphor that he repeats several times: the "chassis". "The chassis is the genetics. It is the genetics that one works on from the first crossbreeding. Here we do more than 170,000 pollinations in soybeans with tweezers, and more than 240,000 self-pollinations in corn. All of that is the chassis: proprietary genetics, developed 100% on Argentine soil, in Venado Tuerto and in La Cruz, Tucumán," he explains. That chassis does not only supply the local market. "This is also evaluated in Brazil, the United States, Uruguay, Paraguay, and South Africa. It is a 360-degree system. It is Argentine genetics that later competes in other countries." Of the more than 170,000 lines that ...