This Wednesday will go down in the annals of Expoagro as the day when almost all the foreign ambassadors arrived to tour the exhibition, a joint initiative of the Foreign Ministry and the organizers to show what is a whole
rosary of new machinery and techniques, the engine of the nascent digital agriculture.
What was striking was the
astonishment of the First World ambassadors
on a visit where Diana Mondino used her teaching skills to explain
direct sowing, the drying mechanism, articulated tractors and even the technique to achieve
high-yield hybrid corn.
Knowledge, he said, obtained from "careful reading" of the rural supplements of the newspapers.
"Korea is a leader in artificial intelligence, but here I have seen a combination of
biotechnology and robotics
that leads me to think about Argentina's role in food production in the world," said ambassador Yongsoo Lee very enthusiastically.
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Amazement of the ambassadors of the first world in the most important exhibition of the Argentine countryside.
Hussein Alassiri, the ambassador of Saudi Arabia, was surprised by the
genetic advance in the seeds.
"Here we are not seeing the field but everything that moves around with a level of technological sophistication that we did not know about," he said.
Alassiri said that about
120 Argentine companies
were at the Dubai food fair and believes that trade will increase.
"There are opportunities, we have just
opened the poultry market and you will be able to export to us
," promised Kirsty Hayes, the ambassador of the United Kingdom in response to the claim of Mario Ravettino, of the meatpacking consortium, who requested that London
increase the Hilton Quota quota.
Hayes was full of praise for the drought-resistant seeds developed by Bioceres.
Some highlighted sustainable production in a world that is in a climate emergency.
The Finnish ambassador, Nicola Lindertz, was surprised that the seeds of Don Mario, of the Bartolomé family and his feet on all continents, are for
every need, be it geographies with excess water or lack of rain.
The alerts that were developed with artificial intelligence both for possible weather events and market shocks, in order to protect against a possible disaster, caught the attention of the Salvadoran ambassador, Eduardo Cardoza Mata, who assured that the country chaired by Bukele will buy
more meat from us.
.
The seeders that place the seed next to the fertilizer and save that data on the screen for later monitoring, the digital crop control systems with alarms against the appearance of fungi, insects and weeds, were highly commented on by these ambassadors who come from technological countries, such as Inge Horstmeier, the ambassador of the Netherlands together with the commercial attaché, Roelof van Ees.
Both highlighted that in
"Argentina it is produced with nature", in obvious reference to direct sowing
that, far from damaging, fertilizes the fallow soils and drastically reduces fuel use.
Of course, Hosrtmeier did not deprive himself of the political message: "Just as we see the Argentine power in agriculture and its technical quality, we have
enormous expectations for things to improve. You are in full transition,"
he said at the end of a visit that ended with a good plate of meat and a
round of applause for the grill.