In three consecutive weeks,
Mercosur displayed all its firepower
to face the two great challenges facing humanity:
food security
and the contribution of agriculture in the battle against
climate change
.
We start with
Expoagro
in San Nicolás.
Last week was
Expoactiva
in Palmitas (
Uruguay
).
And the latter was the turn of
Innovar
, in
Paraguay
.
We were in all three.
A
common denominator: the technological revolution
that allowed this region to become a
huge food basket for the world
.
And not only food, because there is also the impressive
forestry
development , and the global advance in
bioenergy solutions
as a source of greenhouse gas reduction.
Innovar takes place on a property 50 km from the Triple Frontier.
On the Argentine side is Puerto Iguazú, on the Brazilian side Foz de Iguazú, and on the Paraguayan side Ciudad del Este.
50 years ago there was only some tourism there.
The construction of the
Itaipu dam
, between Paraguay and Brazil on the Paraná, began to change history.
Everything has to do with everything
.
The Paraguayan government demanded that half of the work be carried out by Paraguayan companies.
The Brazilians kicked, but they had to accept.
The representative of Caterpillar, the HPetersen company, had to negotiate with the prestigious factory in Peoria (Illinois) so that they would sell hundreds of bulldozers, shovels, excavators, and all the paraphernalia for such an undertaking.
Itaipu was the
largest hydroelectric project in the history of the world
.
And it is still the largest generator.
Opened in 1984.
Renewable Energy, Zero Emissions
.
Today Paraguay's energy matrix is 76% renewable
.
40% is Itaipu.
Only 24% derives from fossil sources.
The remaining 36% is bioenergy.
And it is a
natural result of the enormous agricultural development that is now accelerating,
not only in this region, but also in the Paraguayan Chaco.
Today, commercial offices and logistics centers of 38 agrotechnology companies
are installed
in
Ciudad del Este
, a key factor in the agricultural boom.
Soy, corn, rice, livestock.
Among her the same Petersen, who were adding to the construction line of Caterpillar, the item of agricultural machinery.
They are Case dealers and carry
Argentine
Cestari hoppers,
G-FAS
shelling platforms
, Maschio-Gaspardo
balers ,
robotic heads
Finnish Ponsse for cutting and cleaning logs.
Karen Petersen, director of the family business, is also a factotum of Innovar, created five years ago by a group of companies that saw the opportunity and need for this type of exhibition with all the meat on the grill.
Paraguay is today the world's fourth largest exporter of soybeans
.
The
corn
makes its way to the jumps.
In
meat
they have been growing in quantity and quality and new investments in the refrigeration industry are announced.
Rice
expands in the south and in the Chaco based on the latest technology and high yields
.
An unprecedented forestry
explosion is coming
, with the largest private investment in Paraguayan history:
3 billion dollars in pulp mills
.
They will have to triple the rate of planting forests.
Everyone participates: from the
Brazilians
who jumped the border to the
Mennonite
colonies ,
Japanese
communities ,
Germans, Ukrainians
.
A melting pot of races and cultures that paraded through Innovar.
A babel that does not need to invent Esperanto to understand itself.
That's why they have the Guarani.
In Innovar
you breathe another air
.
There is confidence in the future.
They are practical, they go to the point
.
This works, I have to see this, this doesn't work for me.
Nobody is worried about politics
, nobody feels that there is a knife under the poncho.
The variables that worry are fundamentally the climate and the price.
As it should be.
look too
Argentina Green Year
Ideas to restore the productive cycle
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