Expoagro Argentina 2023: Corteva reveals results of the 1st Enlist soybean crop in Argentina

The Marketing Director of Corteva Agriscience in Argentina, Julián Sudera, revealed to AgroPages the results of the first Enlist soybean campaign in this South American country.

″More than 5,000 producers signed up to plant more than 60 varieties of Enlist existing in the Argentine market. This year, 800,000 hectares were sown with the technology,″ he said during Expoagro Argentina 2023, which is exclusively covered by AgroPages.

″We expect growth, which we estimate will reach 15% of the soy planted in the country,″ projected the director at the event that took place in the city of San Nicolas, province of Buenos Aires.

Sudera explained that this was because ″the Enlist technology offers a unique and simple solution to overcome this great difficulty that is weed control, one of the main concerns of the producer.″

He said Enlist soy was marketed through the ″Sembrá Evolución″ program, developed by the seed industry, to value this market.

According to the Corteva executive, Sembrá Evolución is a system that simplifies the entire model for producers to pay for genetics and technology.

In this sense, Corteva is launching Agrobot so that producers have the best information, both in the Enlist production system and the Sembrá Evolución system.

″Agrobot is the first virtual agricultural assistant in Argentina, through which we seek to be closer to producers, consultants, distributors and applicators, where you can interact via WhatsApp, answering technical questions about the Soy Enlist system, as well as the model commercial, See Evolution,″ he added.

For his part, Gonzalo Insua, head of Brevant's soybean business, pointed out the new advances in soybean varieties in Argentina.

″For this campaign, in addition to the six varieties we have with Enlist technology, we added two new materials with Conkesta Enlist technology, which adds the most robust insect control strategy on the market. All varieties are on the Sembrá Evolución platform,″ he said.

Aldana Santi, from Corteva's marketing team for Pioneer soy, said they are working ″with ten varieties on the market, adapted to almost all soy production areas in Argentina. Both with Enlist and Conkesta technology, which provided the producer with the tools to solve the main problems of soy cultivation.″

BIOLOGICAL CORTEVA

Another of the crucial innovations that led to Expoagro was the Corteva Biologics platform.

″Corteva announced the acquisition of Stoller and Symborg, global leaders in the development of biological solutions″, said Julián Sudera, explaining that Corteva decided as a global strategy to be one of the foremost leaders in the biological segment.

″The biological strategy is very much in line with the company's values, the sustainability that Corteva wants to propose, and that is where these acquisitions come from. So, it is important to point out that this year we will start with launches; the first will be a very innovative product, which is a bacteria to fix environmental nitrogen in any of the crops″, concluded Julián Sudera, Marketing Director at Corteva Agriscience.
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(Editing by Leonardo Gottems, reporter for AgroPages)