Argentina: INTA San Pedro works to ensure the health of crop propagation materials

Shall we tell you another productive story from the San Pedro area? She is Laura Hansen, director of the INTA experiment located at kilometer 170 of Route 9. What you see in the background are greenhouses, some old and others under construction. The poster warns that there is "controlled material" there. “La experimental de San Pedro was always dedicated to intensive productions. It was always a very important fruit and nursery area. To plan what INTA will do, it must first draw up a diagnosis which it carries out together with the producers through the local advisory council. Each INTA has its advisory council and they define the problems; one of the strongest that came out here was the lack of propagation material to start the crops ", the agronomist told Bichos de Campo. And what are propagation materials? “It is the way in which a crop starts, which can start with a seed, with a stake or with a bud, that is, when one has a fruit plant whose stem is of one type and the crown is ...