"Without Coverage, There Is No Sustainable Agriculture in the Chaco"

Published Jul 11, 2025

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Chaco agriculture goes from one extreme to another. After prolonged and severe droughts, it now suffers from water excess in some regions, a situation that has restricted the possibility of achieving a good harvest; nevertheless, there are actions in which the Chaco producer must insist to reduce the climate risk gap and add factors in soil structuring, an non-negotiable component within this agricultural consolidation process in the Western region.

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Sometimes we must give up income, but we must aim for business sustainability, to create a production system," began Marcos Kain, director of Kurepa Kue, in an interview with Productiva, standing next to a wheat plot, practically without bare spots and with a uniform emergence. Productiva visited the La Patricia productive unit, in the La Patria region, Boquerón department, where the Kurepa Kue company leases 2050 hectares of a property where it develops agriculture. There, quite efficient livestock farming was practiced, which avoided overgrazing of areas, a fact that favored the installation of agricultural crops. Hernán Fernández, better known as Rulo Fernández, director of Kurepa Kure, commented that agriculture has principles, such as crop rotation, and that the Chaco forces you to implement them to reduce the effect of phenomena. That is why he insisted on soil coverage, after achieving a soybean harvest of 2400 kg per hectare in the last harvest or yields close to 1000 kg ...
Source: Productivacm

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