Little by little, and despite the intrigue that still exists regarding the National Biofuels Law, Argentina’s environmental agenda grows bigger and bigger with actors from all fields.
On the public side, at the end of 2020 the Yolanda Law that forces public workers to receive training in environmental care and sustainable development, and then it was the turn in the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation of Máximo Kirchner’s project to modify the old Fire Management Law, which stiffens the penalties for committing such environmental crimes.
But prior to that, Argentina signed in the hands of former President Mauricio Macri to “Paris Agreement”, the first universally and legally binding treaty on the climate change, which was signed by the member countries of the United Nations (UN) at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21) in December 2015.
In this sense, companies, institutions and entities have duplicated efforts to meet environmental goals, although unfortunately at the moment, and according to the latest UN report on Climate Change, “While most nations have shown their intention to reduce emissions, their combined impact puts them on the path of achieving only a 1% reduction by 2030 compared to 2010 levels.“.
There are innumerable efforts that have been made and continue to be made in this regard, such as the creation of the first platform to measure your carbon footprint and invest to be neutral in Latin America, the discovery of a super seaweed that eliminates 99.9% of the methane emitted by cows, the disposition of aerosol sprayers to fight fires in Santa Fe, or the recent work carried out jointly by INTA, INTI and Argentrigo on the Carbon Footprint of the wheat chain.
Now, the Norwegian company Yara has managed to demonstrate that with efficient management of the nutrition can reduce the Carbon Footprint from fertilization by a third.
The study consisted of comparing the traditional fertilization management versus the application of the nutritional program of CerealPlus (efficient fertilizers, balanced in nutrients and strategically recommended through precision agriculture tools), that is, with more prior technology for the analysis and later, in terms of the components properly applied
Traditional management includes Diammonium Phosphate (DAP) and UREA, while the second is a solution of CerealPlus, YaraMila, Nitrocomplex ZAR y YaraBela Nitrodoble.
The results obtained can be seen in the following graph:
In order to Josefina Omaña, Yara Marketing Coordinator “generate more information about the Carbon Footprint in fertilizers helps the producer make better decisions, helping to minimize the environmental impact on agricultural production ”.
While Gustavo ElijahAgronomic Coordinator of the firm added that “in the field, the reductions are mainly explained by produce more kilos of cereal for every kilo of nitrogen applied. Furthermore, the chemical reaction of our fertilizers in the soil reduces nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and ammonia emissions for local production conditions ”.
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