What agronomic curiosity is happening in the southern Buenos Aires region? Celebrating with high-density olive groves, Mariano Winograd

Mariano Winograd, an expert in fruit cultivation, often triggers our alerts when something novel happens in the sector that he knows best. Sometimes he tells us about the bleak sides, as many fruit activities are unfortunately in Argentina like species in danger of extinction. But other times he warns us of positive phenomena that bring hope. This is what the latest edition of Bichos de Campo for television portrays: the emergence of cutting-edge olive cultivation in the southern Buenos Aires province. Mariano recently participated in a two-day meeting aimed at analyzing and understanding the overwhelming advance that high-density olive cultivation is having, accompanied by increasingly intensive almond production, around the towns of Coronel Dorrego and Bahía Blanca. Later, in conversation with this medium, he considered these agronomic innovations as a "change of culture." And he explained: "The truth is that in the middle of wheat and cattle fields there are high-density olive ...