Advances in genetics, the adversities posed by the climate with the need to make decisions with the greatest possible technical advice, and the future of cotton were some of the topics addressed in a round table discussion organized by the program Agroprofiles Radio which is broadcast on LT 16 Radio Sáenz Peña from Monday to Friday from 8:30 to 10.
Mauricio TcachINTA geneticist Sáenz Peña and Ivan Capitanichagricultural engineer and agricultural producer, son of producers, adding the voice of a cotton producer and businessman, Hector Linkeanalyzed the most salient aspects of productive activity.
COMPARISONS
Tcach reviewed the most important aspects of his new trip to Brazil, this time within the framework of the 24th Brazilian cotton congress organized by Abapra. Ivan Capitanich and Héctor Linke, the latter by phone, asked about what most producers ask about the difference in cotton production between Argentina and the neighboring country.
Without leaving any room for doubt, Tcach pointed out that Brazil has made significant progress in cotton, and has placed itself above the United States in fiber production, but it has serious problems with fertilization, which is why it needs a significant investment in this regard, a problem that the soils in Argentina do not have.
THE STRENGTH AND VISION OF YOUNG PEOPLE
Ivan Capitanich, meanwhile, says that Argentines “are serial copyists” and that for this reason “we think that copying the Brazilian models that can be successful will lead us to success here.”
“Let us stop copying things that do not work here and value what is ours,” he said, then insisting that in cotton “we always have the experience of our elders, that is why I always emphasize this and we, the youngest, with the application of new technologies, try to improve but never forget what our parents or grandparents did for agricultural activity,” said the young agricultural engineer.
LINKE: “THERE IS NO OTHER WAY THAN TO UNITE”
Hector Linke, meanwhile, said that in the cotton sector, “it is useless for everyone to want to do their own thing, it has already been tested and proven that it does not work, and Brazil has understood this, they have a united program, they have legislators from the countryside in Congress, and we here remain very divided,” he said.
The businessman and cotton producer called for seeking “what unites us, what challenges us as cotton growers, because we have many problems in the chain, and we continue to warn that hormonal products are a threat to the future of cotton, and that could cost us dearly if we do not unite and ask for clear rules of the game, and if controls must be demanded, we must do so, and if planting dates must be modified, we will have to do so,” he said.
