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The
richness of the Argentine farmland
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Mother nature has blessed Argentina in many ways, with a particular
emphasis on the lands fertility, productivity and richness of its soil.
Argentina is endowed with great natural and technical resources to face
the challenges of the most demanding and stringent world markets'.
Argentina has
demonstrated through the high standards of its national
certification bodies, which adhere to IFOAM specification compliance, and
also with the proven quality of its organic exportations, to be an
agriculturally trustworthy and efficient country, being the first foreign
country not member of the European Union to obtain certification to export
organic products into the European Organic Community.
Organic agriculture is an activity that strives for obtaining the
bountiful fruits of Mother Nature without breaking or altering in any way
its natural ecosystems and reproductive cycles, pulling out from the soil
what the soil is capable of giving, without overexploiting with chemical
agents or by using pollutant substances that will harm not only the soil,
but the fragile life that exists in tandem with it. Consequently, we
achieve agricultural products free from chemical residues and pesticides
that may hurt our health, environment or wildlife.
One of the most important principles that upholds organic agriculture is
the preservation of our biosphere, imperative for the conservation of the
healthy life for our planet and the quality of crops we produce.
Most of our products are grown in Argentina. We also grow other organic
products in Brazil, Chile and Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, complementing our argentine
growers, due to variations in climate.
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The
Pampas
Pampas
is a name that has been handed down from the quechua language meaning
"vast prairie", barren almost without trees, the pampas spread
out from the center of Argentina spanning the width of the continent and
reaching out to the Atlantic Ocean on the east and up to the towering
Andes mountain rage to the west. It constitutes the principal agricultural
region of the country and is the widest plain in South America and one of
the most extensive plains in the world (700.000 km2).
Its eastern region known as the humid pampas is the most fruitful region
of the country. It is considered by many as one of the most advanced
regions regarding agricultural activity. Because of its natural conditions
and the richness of the soil, it has the optimum circumstances for organic
production, a fact that has not gone unnoticed since organic agriculture
there has been expanding rapidly in the last couple of years.
The Pampas are well known around the world for being a reliable source of
wheat, corn, flax, soybeans, sunflower and rape seed, among others.
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Argentina
has significant growth opportunities still available in its agricultural
sectors. Growers are employing modern-day farming practices but their
current fertilizer application rates per hectare are among the lowest in
the world.
The naturally rich ecological Pampas of Argentina can provide worldwide
consumers with quality products due to the right balance in soil
composition, soil permeability, water availability, biodiversity and
responsible land use.
Therefore, crop rotation, agricultural chemicals services, expert studies
of of ways and means to influence soil structure, state monitoring of the soil, organization of a soil service, setting of norms for the maximum
permissible harmful impact on soils, recultivation of soils, conservation of soils in areas of water, forest and pasture lands, land improvement,
the
fight against erosion, desertification and pollution are certainly matters
of concern of all the people involved in the sustainable work of promoting
and developing organic agriculture.
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Our
Farm
Everything got
started when Don Andres Cuner came from Lerida, Catalunia at the end of
the 1800 with his wife Maria Josefina and a dream of taking the fruits
from the earth in what was going to be his new home. These fields have
remained in the family and we are now proud of continuing his legacy of
love for the earth and respect for the farmers.
Our fields are located in the North of
Buenos Aires, in the city of San Pedro, which has a surface of 1.319 Km2.
At 160 Km up east north of Buenos Aires it is an advantageous location,
because of its climatic and natural ecological condition, besides its
proximity to the main deep water ports. The main activities are the
cultivation of cereals and
oleaginous like wheat, soybeans, corn, sunflower and wheat. We also grow fruits, (oranges, grapefruit, plums, mandarins and peaches)
and vegetables (specially batata and asparagus).
With more than a century family farm tradition, we contribute with that
agricultural production growing cereals, fruits and vegetables without the use of harmful pesticides or insecticides, currently under
organic certification process.
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