With an eye on the upcoming International Conference, which will take place in our city on March 21 and 22, Mayor Francisco Azcué received representatives from the sector, with whom he discussed the aforementioned activities.
Representing the Cluster were its vice president, Juan Pablo Passini, who attended along with technical advisors and process and commercialization managers, including Walter Silva Müller, Diego Milanich, and Darío Azcarate. The Secretary of Productive Development, Federico Schattenhofer, was also in attendance.
15TH EDITION OF THE CONFERENCE IN Concordia
It will be a two-day meeting for the pecan sector of the region, on March 21 and 22, 2024, at the city's Convention Center. “We will have the participation of local and international experts who are traveling especially for this event to give presentations, from both the United States and Mexico.
“It is important to note that we already have more than 200 registrants from Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, including technicians, producers, nursery owners, professionals, and representatives of commercial companies from different countries, including the Asian market, so expectations are the best,” noted Juan Pablo Passini.
Adding that “we understand that the realization of this activity and its permanence over time is an excellent opportunity to position our city and our region as a hub and reference for production. The event has more than 30 sponsors and is accompanied by a commercial exhibition, which can be seen in the different spaces of the Convention Center,” he noted.
The main sponsor is Savage Equipment, a prestigious North American company that manufactures harvesting machines and conditioning and shelling lines. It is the first time it has participated in this way in an event in Argentina.
THE PECAN CLUSTER
The Pecan Cluster is a non-profit Civil Association that integrates 115 actors in the pecan value chain from the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos, Corrientes, Misiones, Chaco, Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Catamarca, Tucumán, and Salta. Participants include producers, nurseries, service providers, technicians, processors, manufacturers, and marketers. Its main objective is to improve the competitiveness of the Argentine pecan industry, generating the necessary tools for a sustained and integrated development of the chain, with the aim of boosting pecan cultivation in terms of its production and commercialization in domestic and foreign markets.
To achieve this, they work in a coordinated manner, developing several lines of work with the private sector and the public sector at the municipal, provincial, and national levels.
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
The Cluster aspires to generate a productive alternative for the city, the province, and the region that allows for the development of a thriving economy through the growth and maintenance of the planted area, the development of new agro-industrial activities with added value in the region: conditioning plants, processing plants (shelling and packaging), the production of pecan-based products (oil, flour, milk, and flavored pecans), the development of the metal-mechanical industry, and achieving the work of professionals and institutions trained for the improvement and development of the sector, driven by on-site progress (that is, local capabilities).
The program for the Conference can be found on the website:
https://clusterdelpecan.org.ar
Representing the Cluster were its vice president, Juan Pablo Passini, who attended along with technical advisors and process and commercialization managers, including Walter Silva Müller, Diego Milanich, and Darío Azcarate. The Secretary of Productive Development, Federico Schattenhofer, was also in attendance.
15TH EDITION OF THE CONFERENCE IN Concordia
It will be a two-day meeting for the pecan sector of the region, on March 21 and 22, 2024, at the city's Convention Center. “We will have the participation of local and international experts who are traveling especially for this event to give presentations, from both the United States and Mexico.
“It is important to note that we already have more than 200 registrants from Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, including technicians, producers, nursery owners, professionals, and representatives of commercial companies from different countries, including the Asian market, so expectations are the best,” noted Juan Pablo Passini.
Adding that “we understand that the realization of this activity and its permanence over time is an excellent opportunity to position our city and our region as a hub and reference for production. The event has more than 30 sponsors and is accompanied by a commercial exhibition, which can be seen in the different spaces of the Convention Center,” he noted.
The main sponsor is Savage Equipment, a prestigious North American company that manufactures harvesting machines and conditioning and shelling lines. It is the first time it has participated in this way in an event in Argentina.
THE PECAN CLUSTER
The Pecan Cluster is a non-profit Civil Association that integrates 115 actors in the pecan value chain from the Argentine provinces of Entre Ríos, Corrientes, Misiones, Chaco, Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Catamarca, Tucumán, and Salta. Participants include producers, nurseries, service providers, technicians, processors, manufacturers, and marketers. Its main objective is to improve the competitiveness of the Argentine pecan industry, generating the necessary tools for a sustained and integrated development of the chain, with the aim of boosting pecan cultivation in terms of its production and commercialization in domestic and foreign markets.
To achieve this, they work in a coordinated manner, developing several lines of work with the private sector and the public sector at the municipal, provincial, and national levels.
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
The Cluster aspires to generate a productive alternative for the city, the province, and the region that allows for the development of a thriving economy through the growth and maintenance of the planted area, the development of new agro-industrial activities with added value in the region: conditioning plants, processing plants (shelling and packaging), the production of pecan-based products (oil, flour, milk, and flavored pecans), the development of the metal-mechanical industry, and achieving the work of professionals and institutions trained for the improvement and development of the sector, driven by on-site progress (that is, local capabilities).
The program for the Conference can be found on the website:
https://clusterdelpecan.org.ar