By Agrositio. 01/10/2021 | 12:10
I have been traveling the country for many years and kicking fields. With that phrase, Aldo Biondini, advisor at the Livestock Consultant on Three Streams, from Agustn Lizzi.
It all started in 2017, when Biondini decided to leave the seedbed for which he worked and go on his own. Today, manages fields in Bellocq, Orense, Copetonas, Chves, Necochea, Coronel Dorrego, Indio Rico, Pringles, Coronel Surez, Cooperativa de Darregueira, Vicua Mackena, America, Rivera, Huangueln, La Madrid, among others.
I traveled much of the country selling seeds. That led me to be trained in the knowledge of the different environments, soils and climates of our country.. I was always open to research and testing, not sticking with what I already knew, but going further, he relates. Thus it was that one day he discovered nanotechnology, which is developed in Argentina by the firm Kioshi Stone.
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Biondini recalls that four years ago, he started doing some trials with sorghum and noticed that the plants copied the soil. I observed that in many soils in the area there were great shortcomings in correcting the pH of the soil, and searching on the internet I found the liquid gypsum. There I contacted Gabriel Lema and Benito Gonzlez, who came to see me at the office and brought me two jars of one liter each and explained to me that it was the nanotechnology and its benefits. I didn’t even know the word, but when they told me it could represent 600 kilos of agricultural gypsum, I was bitten by the intrigue bug, he says.
It is that Lema – CEO of the firm- and Gonzlez – technical manager- opened the doors of a new world for him, which motivated him to study technology. The hardest thing to understand was the issue of the scale on which you are working. This is practical: allows you to work large surfaces with small quantities, provides mineral nutrients, an improvement of the quality of the soil correcting the acidification and alkalinity, favoring the results in the application of traditional fertilizers, describe Biondini.
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In soil analyzes it is detected that organic matter, and it is in this framework that Biondini remarks the importance of conducting soil analysis. Producers are often reluctant to do so because of costs, and do not realize that they end up wasting the investment they make in the nutrition of the crop. O ground. After planting, the most important thing is soil analysis, he says.
And it highlights that in the area there are already groups where information and experiences are shared with Mist, the Kioshi Stone product line for soil correction, seed vivifying, nutrition and trace elements.
Before, mistakes are made of not knowing how to explain what nanotechnology is. Today the new generations are more eager to use new technologies. However, all producers like to use technological tools, which improve their production, acknowledges Biondini.
Among other points, the expert underlines the efficiency and intelligence of nanotechnology. It allows to take full advantage of the nutrients by increasing their bioavailability, which contributes to maintaining the balance of the soil, he describes.
At the Livestock Consultant, many producers who 100% nanotechnology has already been encouraged. Both ways of working are fine. What I do know, when nanotechnology is added to the usual practice of balanced fertilization, the performance of both plants and soils is enhanced, assures Biondini, and highlights that every time there is more interest in environmental care.
The mentality is changing. There are many producers who have already taken his hand and do not change it anymore. They already have three products certified as organic, a point that is increasingly appreciated in the market and in the world, because we are what we eat, closes.
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