Bahía Blanca, August 18, 2021 – With a focus on having increasingly sustainable production processes, a new edition of the Congress of AAPRESID (Argentine Association of Direct Sowing Producers – Argentina) is held, the most important event in Argentine agriculture each year. With the same objective Profertil once again says present at the event, focusing on the importance and good practices of fertilization, in which the company is a leader at the national level.
The slogan of this year’s congress, “Always alive, always diverse”, highlights the importance of having productive systems with multiple crops, thinking not only of a sustainable agricultural rotation, but also of the inclusion of cover crops, which keep the soil permanently covered, improving the efficiency of water use and biodiversity.
That objective of caring for the soil is also aimed at Profertil, the main crop nutrition company in Argentina, since fertilization is a central process to achieve this. But, also, to be able to sequester carbon that helps mitigate climate change.
For this reason, within the framework of the AAPRESID Congress, the company held a technical workshop in which the renowned specialist Miguel Taboada spoke, whose title was “Nitrogen fertilization, an ally to improve the carbon balance”.
There, the results of a work were presented in which GHG emissions and C sequestration that occur at the batch level in the corn crop were evaluated, under the application of different nitrogen sources. For this, the Profertil corn testing network was used, which began in 2005 and continues today (12 years of testing).
Taboada explained how the use of stabilized nitrogen sources allows reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, constituting an excellent climate change mitigation strategy.
“From the company we are aware of the importance of reducing GHGs and for that we work on different axes that help mitigate this impact, aligned with the sustainable development objectives proposed by the UN,” said Mirta Toribio, head of Research and Development at Profertil.
Along these lines, the use of stabilized fertilizers, such as eNeTOTAL Plus, allows a 30% reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions.
“Along these lines, at AAPRESID we also take the opportunity to insist on the importance of promoting efficient nutrient management, using what we call Best Management Practices (MPM), which have four basic pillars: source, dose, form and correct moment of application. ”Added Toribio.
Beyond these concepts and the products developed by the company in this line, Profertil, as an industrial company, is also committed to these objectives in its production processes.
In fact, since last year more than 60% of the energy it consumes at its Bahía Blanca plant comes from renewable sources, such as the Los Teros wind power park, located near Azul, in the province of Buenos Aires.
With concrete facts, the main fertilizer company in Argentina continues to advance towards an increasingly sustainable form of production, promoting and providing tools so that the rest of the actors in Argentine agriculture follow the same path, because production systems must be , as AAPRESID says, “Always alive and always green”.
About Profertil
It is a company dedicated to the production of the necessary fertilizers to optimize crop yield in a sustainable way. Integrated in equal parts by YPF and Nutrien Inc., it has had its production plant in the port of Ingeniero White for 20 years. There it produces 1,320,000 tons of granulated urea annually, the main nitrogen fertilizer for the soil. In addition, it markets other fertilizers and makes tailored mixes to provide each territory and crop with the nutrition it requires. It has administrative offices in Buenos Aires, logistics terminals Necochea, San Nicolás and Puerto General San Martín (Santa Fe). It has 345 direct employees, 1,500 indirect employees and more than 850 active suppliers.
Website: www.profertil.com.ar
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