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25 April, 2008
Within the framework of the agreement signed with the cooperative Picada Libertad de Leandro N. Alem last year, the company of Swiss- British capitals Gar (Global Agricultural Resources), will invest three million dollars approximately to promote the production of castor oil in Misiones. The funds include the delivery of seeds to the producers, installation of machineries and the purchase of the whole elaborated product, in a ten year term. In next months, the company, in combination with Picada Libertad, will give the seeds and it will provide the technical attendance to the colonists that are devoted to the activity. “What we want to emphasize is that it is a serious project and that we are not here for a year or two, but rather in the begining there is an agreement for ten years, renewable for other ten yearsâ€, pointed out the director of GAR for Latin America, Dany Kait. Good alternative The president of the board of directors of Picada Libertad, Rubén Wolemberg, indicated that the possibility to cultivate the castor bean represents a good opportunity for the producers and he also remarked that the company Gar committed to buy the whole production. “It will be a good alternative for the colonists. This cultivation is very valued by its capacity for the biofuel elaboration, and our climate accompanies the good development of the plant. Even so, the fact that we begin to work with the castor bean doesn´t mean that we will abandon the tung processingâ€, he commented. On the other hand, he explained that the entrance of the new production will allow to the cooperative to reduce its maintenance costs. “From 1950 we produce tung oil, but because of the fall of the values many plantations got lost. Because it lowered the production a lot, we had a high cost in the factory for the time in that there was no production. The benefit that we will have with the castor bean is that we will be able to carry out investments inside the cooperative and to lower the idle capacity so in this way we will reduce the elaboration costsâ€, commented the president of Picada Libertad. “The tung campaign lasts three months, that implies that there are nine months during wich the factory is stopped, what means high maintenance costs and for that reason we want to increase the work to divide the costs of the companyâ€, detailed Wolemberg. Source: Misiones On Line Deje un comentario |
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