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430,000 hectares in Argentina are used to produce seeds, mobilizing around 10,000 workers.

Published Jun 24, 2020

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From the Asociación de Semilleros Argentinos (ASA), which brings together 80 companies that produce and commercialize cereal and oilseed seeds, they highlighted that they have managed to harvest the entire surface destined for seed crops in the country despite the quarantine due to the coronavirus.

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The pandemic came in the middle of the harvest season for coarse crops (soybeans, corn, sunflowers and sorghum), and various inconveniences had to be overcome throughout the territory and with the feat of transporting 10 thousand 'swallow' harvesters in the midst of the emergency. sanitary. It was not a minor challenge. In Argentina, where some 34 million hectares are planted with extensive crops, there are 430,000 hectares dedicated to seed crops. 70% is located in the province of Buenos Aires. Then follows Santa Fe and behind are the provinces of Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Mendoza and Río Negro. ASA Executive Director Alfredo Paseyro recalled that on February 12, when the corn seed harvest began, they met with the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Basterra, and also with the Secretary General of UATRE, Ramón Ayala, who represents field workers, to outline a special strategy for seed activity. Then came the coronavirus, and the mandatory quarantine that ...
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