A total of 12 producers started a yerbal improvement project in the town of San Pedro, focused on optimizing soil, plant and water conditions and achieving sustainable production. To support and expand this initiative, a meeting was recently held between leaders of INYM, INTA; the municipality and the Secretary of Family Farming of the Nation.
“Together with 12 producers, we are going to implement a work plan for 1 or 2 hectares of yerba mate on each farm,” said engineer Cristian Olivera, from the INYM Yerbatero Extension Service. “The objective is to manage it in the medium and long term, to improve production and to generate information and transfer these experiences to other places,” he added.
The proposal for this work arose from meetings with the producers. “Now we are at the stage of visiting and seeing the field of grass intended for handling. Then soil will be extracted for physical analysis and the next stage will be the presentation, to each producer, of an annual work plan,” Olivera explained.
The farms that will receive comprehensive care are located in the neighborhoods of Doble Alicia, San Lorenzo, Primavera, San Jorge, María Auxiliadora, Gentil and Gramado. “There are 5-year-old yerbals and others up to 30 years old, where plant management must be improved, since an inadequate cut causes problems due to the effect of the sun and frost; soil management, which is compacted or lacks green covers, and fertilization,” he explained. “All this, thinking about achieving a sustainable production”, she highlighted.
This last point was the convening theme of a meeting that took place yesterday headed by the mayor Miguel Ángel Dos Santos, in which Claudio Yarmusko, a technician from the Municipality; Verónica Scalerandi, the deputy manager of the INYM Technical Area; Cristian Olivera, from the INYM Yerbatero Extension Service; Luis Grondona, from INTA; and Jorge Stelmaszczuk, representing Nación Family Agriculture. It was agreed to move towards an articulated work, to support the producer, and as a first joint action, to carry out training, on March 29, on soil diagnosis and recovery.
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