It has the name of an illustrious doctor, but our Cosme Argerich was an INTA researcher when in the 1990s he proposed to create Tomato 2000, an associative model unpublished in the Argentine agriculture: “I just said that we all had to work together”

The similarity of the current economic policy with that of the 90s reminds the producers of tomato industry how important it was to get the sector together. From its birth, in 1997, until today, the Tomate 2000 association has managed to improve productivity and technification, and to make the sector profitable and competitive again. But the history, it is known, is one of lime and one of sand: just like in the time of Carlos Menem, with convert…