"Beyond the fact that we are in love with the cultivation, this is still a business": Pecan producers ask for tools

For some time now, the pecan seems to be going against the trend of many other agricultural productions in the country. Far from stagnating in surface area or recording declines in yield, this dried fruit is gaining more and more followers who see in it the possibility of diversifying their businesses and obtaining additional profitability. Are we perhaps facing the new "darling" of agriculture? "The truth is that it is. The pecan has been gaining a lot of strength nationwide and today it can be said that it has become one of the first options for diversification of traditional livestock or grain producers," said Facundo Tejerina, president of the Argentine Chamber of Pecan Producers (Cappecán), to Bichos de Campo. During the last Annual Pecan Convention - organized by that Chamber in the Buenos Aires town of Mercedes, with the presence of producers, technicians, and companies linked to that sector - Tejerina analyzed the present of that activity in the country. "Today Argentina ...